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Adventures
Weeds and
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'Big Sister'
To WRAF In Singapore
Formerly a missionary in Indin, Miss Dorothy War- wick has become the first official "big sister" to the Women's Royal Air Force in the Far East. She has been appointed Chaplain's Assistant in the Far East Air Force.
Based on Singapore Island and working under the guidanco of RAF chaplains, Miss Warwick of her tímo spends most straightening out the private worries and problems of service largest drls worlding at the fAF Stations on the island, Changt and Seletor,
The RAF authorities realised some time ago that the women's Services presented spiritual and other problems which could best them- be tackled by women selves. This log to the establish- meht at home air force centres of posts for chaplain's assistants. offered her Mics Warwick
services, and began her work at RAF Station, Innsworth, Gloucester.
THREE-YEAR "TOUR"
The Far East Air Force was the first RAF overseas Com- mand to establish a chaplain's assistant post. The WRAF in the Command are concentrated on Singapore Island, where Miss Warwick has been posted threg-year "tour"
Broadly speaking, Miss War- wick's work is concerned with
which affects anything
the spiritual and moral welfare of the WRAF. In addition to her rouling duties she undertakes regular visits to WRAF girls in hospital, and is also concerned with the well-being of the wives and children of married airmen.
Miss Warwick
her began social welfare work in 1935, when she went to India as n missionary. Returning home in 1044, she worked from 1945 to 1947 in Home Office Approved Schools and early in 1940 be- can her work with the RAF at Innsworth.
THEY PLEAD FOR THOSE EVICTED
Joining Germany
Civilian Guard
YOUNG GERMANS line up for questioning in Munich before they sign up for training with the city's Civilian Guard, known formerly as the Industry Police. Only single men are taken for the organisation, and some officials urge that the groups be used to train Germans for military duty in case of war in Europe, as is being We done in the Soviet Zone. (Acme)
Rabbit Is Britain's No. 1 Pest
..
Abundance of root crops after a wet summer has made the rabbit. Britain's No. 1 pest. The National Farmers Union have issued an appeal for landowners to be held responsible for the control of rabbits on their property.
Newbury (Berkshire) bratich went further, and urged that farmers and landowners should bo fined if they allowed rabbits In their fields and woodmunds
"IL the presence of these vermin is eventually recognised as an offence punishable by fine on the or Imprisonment landowner, a new outlook on the country's poaching laws, will be necessary,”- one Newbury farmer said.
STILL FINED
"Countrymen are still being fined, often heavily, for poach ing rabbits. They are doing no more than helping to limit: dangerous pest and augmen their small meat rullen.
"Our idea is tänt all farme should be given a date by which their land must be free of rabbits After that the presenc of rabbits would be an offend The Ministry for Agriculty would no doubt help in a bi on the vermin."
The woman who THE FOUR
decided Cripps should retire
by
GWYN LEWIS
fow ex-
BROTHERS
CAMPBELL
Wherever great tunnel have to be bored throug) the Scottish mountains there you will find the fou brothers Campbell working together, up to 12 hours à day with the acrid dust, an the fumes of galignite con stantly in their nostrils.
I asked whether Sir Stafford Fumes from sulphuric acid used ever tired of his restricted diet, in the factory upset him.
yearn at whether he did not
until o Sir Stafford, plate of "edible
weeks ago, employed an
They are Andy, Barne times for a substances."
"Good heavens, no,"
was the naval gunner as cook at Frith
Hill He is Mr Joe Morrison Paddy and Colin, who are no reply. tarian meals."
a Ross-on-old son, Jim. They have ju......
finished a four years task d
work for
HARLIE SMITH, "70 "We went on to San Vigilio years old, until re in Italy, where on the shores
"He enjoys his vege- who left the vegetarian house- accompanied by Andy's 20-year? new hobby, painting cently gardener at Sir of Lae Garda he took up hi
Sir Stafford sleeps without hold to Stafford Cripps's home in "He did not catch a cold as the Cotswold Hills, told me
stated the aid of drugs. His avoid- Wye butcher. some newspapers have
Mr Morris's wife Brinda, who the hydro-electric scheme tunas Now they as that he knew the twilight but suffered another of his at- ance of them even when pain.
keeps him awake is part of his also worked at Frith Hill, said at Pitlochry.
starting at the Errochty tunne had set in over the career tacks of colitis.
spartan regime.
to me
with another four years won "He came home a tired man, Local authorities of the "Iron Chancellor"
that down to our I puz
ahead of them. throughout Britain who are when Sir Stafford during but planning to evict squatters his summer holiday did not from hut camps will shortly once ask for his scythe. be approached by an
For Charlie Smith and the ganisation formed to
staff at Frith Hill, Sir Stafford's "soften the hearts" of coun-armhouse home near Stroud,
knew In the bast cils.
that whit they taw the Chancellor. ex-
OF-
wearying 24 hours of travel by
train and boat. The attack of colitis, as far as I could judge,
and subsided.
HIDES PAIN
EARLY RISER
hia
al
"Joe used to concoct kinds of dishes with a variety of cheeses, of which Sir Staf
Sk
Andy has had 26 years on th E retires only, usually not ford extremely fond.
later than 9.30 p.m., and Stafford also likes mushrooms life, only seeing hia, wits
family occasionally in a is an early risor. I was told: and artichokes,"
He has lived in butted en "When he has much work on
A WIGWAM :
in the wilds, roughing it w hard and feels fit he is up be-
and summer, Why? fore Ave in the morning going DUT SL Stafford has de through his papers
WHEN meat was being cook-attraction is the pay, fo Many locat authorities have pertly cutting swathes through "B"
Dveloped an ability to con-
to take "Then he likes
aed for visitors, Joe was tunnelling, the harder you earn, and recently gone to law over the the long grass of the orchard
the the more you: ceal from those around him the
to three always carefull kcep question of squatters who have all was well with him.
fact that he is in pain. We can walk of anything up
kitchen door closed, because appears to be no limit. certain when he is miles before breakfast." moved into huts intended for
the odour of this "inedible housing families
oficial A member of Sir Stafford's never be on
As tunnel foreman, Andy, In the early stages of Eviction orders family described to me his fight feeling well or when he is ill.
cam £25 a wook'in wages Jor. waiting lists
"We have always thought it troutment Sir Stafford was ad- substance" upset the Chancel
A shift boss can. t in-bonus have been obtained, and some against ill-health. It is a fight
him vloed that he would have to that has gone on for something actiul never to bother
There was on amusing have been carried out.
Str Stafford's like 30 of
when Sir Over £20, a driller £18, with fussy inquiries about his pay more attention to posture.
Nowadays, whenever he sits, cident this, cummer
atter helping his a labourer £10. years, of life.
health.
Hes down, or goes walking, he Stafford,
wigwam When the pressure is does so in a manner prescribed grandchildren build a
in the garden, set on the din- wages sopr. In thé : clő. ing-room table a dish of pota stages of cementing the 24 10 by experts.
on the wigwam high Bitlochry hunnel, one o actually caribd ; £52. 108. 1. "I never one week. About £30 the wi
was a good dvorage for like those!"
of the other. And tunne! have known their inbourer maker to come out with
PROBLEM ACUTE
The problem is acute in the Home Countles,
ried quarters needed for newly
posted man2.
GI
baked
appearance
offended
This member of the family
The nature of his illness is who lives in a neighbouring village told me first of all how a mystery that puzzled nut only
of the toes member Another It has been said that he suffers In the Aldershot district, the dramatic decision to retire the doctors but his own family.
men was made.
bas
much Their from amoebic dysentery. That Cripps family said to me: "Sir fire.. demobilised
given families of have been turned out of mar
"About a year had passed is not true, though in the 1914- Stafford since he last visited Dr Dagnar 18 war he did contract, an in- thought over a long period of Joe, who exclaimed:
Sir Stafford, man relaxation. He felt that there And Llechtl, the Swiss woman doc- testinal disorder which seems time to mastering the art of served potatoes
in lay the accret of making his austerity, laughed. tor m whom he has enormous to have recurred ever since. faith. He decided that the time
"Yet if you ask me to give illness bearable.
+ that
-London Express Service), for a week's work, discovered had come to put the issue plata his illness
"He has a precise medical
secret to greater extent, them name I caimot,
of his age- "Fifteen years ago he op- have most.. mem
heavy responsibili nounced to us that hencefor carrying
not regard - ties." ward he would
as' 'edible. meat, flah, or fowl substances."
Near Henley-on-Thames scores
into squ ers moved former ulish camp.
of
ly to hor and accept her verdict Healey rural coynell already-resign, or, carry on. have turned out some of the squatters.
Now the council bave been by the organisa- approached
tion.
TIRED MAN
WENT with him for this list check-up. He set off Captain C. J. Goldwnld, the for the Bieber Bermer chairman, told the council: "Atitute, Zurich, feeling t
body with no toca
Ilis visit was not prompted certain weight in the matter have asked by any sudden roourrence of a conference to his painfull stomach disorder, us to attend
"KIND" METHODS
SIDE GLANCES
CARPENTRY-
That was his own desertp-
ever since..
VOR time he found relaxa-
DRINKS LITTLE
tion. He has been a vegetarian Hoa in carpentry. He made
"HIS
a table, fender stools, and other furniture which is in daily us at Frith HUL
When the spent. a month at soften our hearts in this matter. He was merely anzfoi about IS favourite breakfast is a Faith Hill: before making his
the future.
mbeture of milk, um- decisive journey to Switzerinnd "The doctor examkied him. I cooked oatmeal, and grated - most of his time was spont all that passed, cooked apples or other fruit. resting and, playing in his will not relate
flower-filled garden with Sir Stafford, and I This dish is called mucall He
grandchildren, between
that examination.
but is very fond of it.
He driksten and coffee has seyen: after from that moment it was sparingly and sour milk, but lied that he would have to ne-
"I anticipate however, that the huts will be in our possession by dnd" methods by the time the conference comea about,”
Major Shurman Stoner, the virt-chairman, said: "The body
tico trying to deal with the prob lem wherever it prison."
FERDINAND
hin
of whom
bo
in
tire for a Ume from puble life. Uquids have utile part in his Shortly after his litness
diot. He never, touches stimu- the 1914-18 war he was put in "A confidential letter was lants, and years ago gave up charge of the costings work at a munitions plant in Cheshire. immediately sent home.
pipe smoking."
No Luck
Mik
By Galbrait
MGA MATARK*
ERROL
FLYNN
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