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GOL
"You'll get 'It's-quite-all-right-we-learned-all-about-her-at-school' if you're not all down here in ten seconds."
London Express Service
The captain's wife goes to sea
I
by VIVIEN BATCHELOR
also
-
bered the long years when I was alone, and even being sea-sick is well worth while."
Ellermans
bave nounced that a captain who has been at sea for 12 months may put in an application to take his wife on a trip with him. this came into force on March 1. So far there have been no *requests.
F you are in London and cabin, e bathroom and their own
call
But they take their at No. 63, The steward. Avenue, Muswell Hill,
meals with the ship's officers and kpend just by Alexandra Palace, officers' smoke om,
most evonings in the to ask for Mrs Elsie Algar,
"I was four-year-old
thoroughly spoiled. Nigel will being the only woman aboard," "There will be, once the wives probably tell you: "Mummy the sald. "But the officers found, have known the exciternent of has gone away to sea."
plenty to keep me busy-darning, sulling over the their socks and sewing on their Mrs Simmons.
world," said buttons."
His brothers Philip aged 14, and Rodney, aged 10, Ocensionally Mrs Simmons? are used to their father would be taken on a tour of the going away, for he is cap- come out:
ship, and here the housewife tain of a modern tanker, the Hyalina, part of Anglo Saxon
"We had a Chinese crew, and the I was impressed with how spot-. Petroleum lessly clean everything was," she Company's fleet. It is one raid.
of the companies which al-But one place I never ven- lows senior officers to take tured into was the kitchen- their-wives with them to galley should say. I thought
sea,
her since
n woman would be unpopular there."
"Cotton shorts
(World Copyright Reserved.~ London Express Service.)
Hunger
-SAYS THE
JAMES LEASOR
has flown to India to report the ordeal of the famine-stricken province of Bihar, As Prime Minister Nehru announces that Runnlau wheat slips are on the way, Leasor cables a penetrating close-up of the waiting millions
MAGISTRATE has these
people
T
for the ration with a thumbprint. a cost is about eightpence-or about half a rupee.
made mad
Munshil, a noted novelist in hin own dialect, sat barefooted in his air-conditioned New Delhi house the reason and dismissed as "not serious" London to Bihar..
for my fight from
The "Huriger Marches," he sald, were "inspired by political Now many are getting only opponents who two
were making or three ounces, while much of the shortages." exist on edible roots and bark. others got nothing, and must
PATNA (Bihar). HE district magis
trate apologines to me in advance, for
As a monthly labourer's wage the food looters he may be 40 rupees, a family man has come here to try at a fair price.
cannot buy overmuch food even "Hunger," he says, "has made the people mad." Then he walks off to one of the hastily moned courts which have that there is nothing else to The lands are 'so bone-bare been set up all over the In cat-no fish, fowl or fault. Never dian province of Bihar. in the life of the villagers have
there been such days.
andly
sum-
The sentence of the court, he knows, will be no more hari 10 bear than the famine which has induerd sudden and widespread plitaging of food stacks.
For not one of Bihar's 40,000,- 000 people, in a province as big as England and Wales, has had a square meal for days.
Three weeks ahead is the monsoon-and those three weeks separate Bihar from a famine as severe as that in Bengal in 1943.
Night patrol
For hundreds of miles around this city bake the cracking, erupted fields, the waste lands that have not bornen erop in years,
failed rains, rains that came too This is the fourth year of late, the fourth year of foods by the Kost (River of Sorrow), the worst of four lean years,
of one that is world-wide-the The problem is a microcosm daily increasing population, and tally shrinking of food produc- tion. Too much has been taken from the soll for too long and too little restored, The end must come somewhere,
THE magistrate is a house guest time.
with mc
came
at Kurscle, in North-West Bihar, at the home of a venerable landowner, Raghubans Prasad Singh, whose father
herr with 1wo rupees and a water bottle.
Now 53, Singh owns 12,000 meres of land, two aeroplanes, a speedboat,
and 40 personal servants. But no food.
He has had to call in four ex- soldiers, armed with rifles and fixed bayonets, to patrol by night his magnificent white house,
For Singh-like other rich men here is fearful
that his home will be Overrun peasant's suspicious that he has stocks of foud..
by
lawlessness," says the nugistrate
"Never has there been such
At 3,000 Fair-Price Shops opened by the Government- title which Indicates Ateers have leeched on to the that pro- famine stocks-the people were promised a daily ration of eight ounces of rice.
The villagers have been bring- ing their ration cards and signing.
THE SPIVS GET
BUSY ON
ST
ON BEEF
From R, M. MacCOLL NEW YORK.
BIHAR -the MOREDON Is three wooke
sway ...
NDIA
some
now
The sacred River Ganges, nearly dry, bisects the country horizontally. On the north bank, where the Tamine is worst, are 8,000,000 people, most of them in bamboo wattle huts, horse for pulling a several sharing # stringy old plough through the crumbling carth,
wooden
are a few industrial towns and a South of the bridgeless Ganges broad-gauge railway. The rail- way on the north bank is of for the famine parts from the narrow gauge, hence all supplies south must be ferried over the river and reloaded on fresh trucks.
Bihar used to be one of the best of India's rice lands. Four bad years have rusted this re- putation, and relief is difficult.
►
He has gone to Rangoon to get Today Munshi knows beller. rice from the Burmese.
No one works in Bihar's bum-
ing fields of billowing dust, for there is no work to do, The Provincial Government is organ- faing gangs for road-buliding rather than pay poor relief, but there is still not one proper road In North Bihar, as no tar cement, or stones are available.
Doubters
THE gesture, it is thought, is better than letting the workless do nothing-nothing.. hunger. that is, but worry about their
Nevertheless, Bihar's famine is providing endless ammunition belt for the use of December's for politicians outside the hunger general election.
Indin's Congress Government says it is handling things well. "I am confident I'll win this battle," says Nehru. The local villager's are not so sure. Some of them told me seriously that... they believed Got was punishing them for their bad Government, Others said: "We never had Buch bad years when the British were held
cm-
Goverment officials barrassed by my speaking the local dialect without need of their interpretation, assure me earnestly that such opinions are
unrepresentative."
Since January, they say, more than 1,000,000
tons of rice, wheat, and maize have gone to North Bihar, but distribution is slow and dificult by bullock-cart convoy and mule train,
the uneasy
But the visitor to Bihar has feeling that the province is just running itself, without help or hindrance from potal-pink secretarial, the Government. In Patna's
So unreal
LTHOUGH the province is in
the middle of the drought of this generation, fat worst hoses spray the secretariat lawn and loyal varlets heave buckets of
The Assam earthquake cuts off relief from there and other doorways of high officials' rooms water on to mals hung in the surplus-producing areas the to cool the air, Glittering offelal Punjab and Sind-which now cars come and go, guards salute. belong to Paklatan. That is why with drill-book precision, but the hurried calls for rice went to whole thing America, Russia, and China.
slightly unreal.
seems
Government procrastination
The reality is outside-at has not helped speedy relief, nearby Madhubani, for example, Until the last few
weeks the where hungry, bltter demonstra- YOU cannot forget for long Central Government in New tors paraded three days running NIX little words have sent in New York that there is a big Delhi refused to believe
the outside the local Government are the ideal a shudder through the attraction for American visitors trouble could be tragic.
offlees shouting: "Give us food, over in Europe this summer. Its when housewives of
An embittered M. P. In a give us jobs, or else get out." America-m
advertising is brilliantly done parliamentary debate sold: "In you get to the "The beef black market is and very tasteful, too. As one the food department everything items
In Bihar, unless the first two hot climates, And
Brc supplied rubber
walks out of the Waldorf Astoria,is being produced, speeches, urgently, the last request may
So recently Mrs Algar sailed "Uniform" for Mrs Simmons: Tor the West Indies on her first, includes slacks or shorts. trip with husband they were mar rled. Grand- mother is
loox-
ing after children
the
and
their mother will
be back from the
sea. Children are
to-
not allowed 10.
The Mercantile Marine Associa→ tion, the sea cap-
tains' organisa tion, have just said in their 94th annual report that If more companies would allow wives to
there sca
garments
-
sary In Bombay.
more than a fortnight Minister Kanialal
most
cease to be optional. For hunger, as the magistrate said, has made the people med.
-(London Express Service)
Caster a fine sugar
50led back."
for instance, the colourful display pamphlets, forecasts and so on, shoes are things No sooner did the Office of over the main doorway magne- but not food." to avoid like the Price Stabilisation in Washing- tises your eye. The Festival of plague. You're ton announce that its wholesale Britain? No-the 2,000th birth- Little too apt to slip. celings on beef were starting day of the City of Paris. ago Food In the evenings. than "the boys" got busy.
WHEN or when we had Already restaurants all over stopped by the police in Hop- a speeding car was a special party, the country are getting polite well, New York, it was found to put on a dress."little cards, recalling the beef- contain President Truman's only Two years ago lean days of 1940, and saying sister, Mary Jane. The driver, she celebrated
that so-and-so will be happy to G-man Grady Stowe, was given her fourteenth see that supplies of steaks and his choice of paying 20 dollars wedding anniver happens..
roasts will continue whatever (27 39.) or going
to gol for 20 days. He pald-up. It Was the But the Government is being PRESIDENT TRUMAN, grato- first time in 16 tough. In Spokane, Washington, fully accepting the gift years' married Cloy Magnuson, convicted life we had been violating the price regulations what he does not like in music. of United Nations piano, told them together for an on 1.850lb, of prime beef, must Pet dislikes: grand Junior officers to stay in the ser- hope we shall be together at do six months-and in a read boogie-woogie
opera and Then sea for this year's."
planist AMERICA'S roaring steel in- Little Fairy Waltz.
Truman sat down and played the Now, in Captain Simmons'sdustry faces on unexpected slow-
down. The trouble? Not enough Arizona are hopping mad. Be- EX-SERVICEMEN. in Tucson, company the masters may take their wives to sen all the
scrap metal available,
A 60-YEAR-OLD man named
cause the Korean fighting is not time if they wish. So can the Mendelssohn toll dead on a lano, back from
a "recognised war," David Arel chief engineers. The chief offeer Baltimore, Maryland,
eight months concert with a bazooka in Korea, was and the second engineer are platform while in the middle of refused treatment for, a serious allowed to take their wives on violin recital. He was the throat allment at the one trip a year.
Great-grand-nephew of Men- Veterans' Administration Hos- local delssohn, the composer.
pital.
40
would be greater incentive for
MRS, SIMMONS
・・・ packs • skipping rope.
vice. Eight hundred and seventy-two officers left last year.
Sailing with her husband in a few weeks' time is another captain's wife, who lives near Mrs Algar in Lytton Road, East Finchley.
She is Mrs Renee Simmons, forty-ish, with greying fair hair-and a good command of nautical terms. She has already - made three trips with her hus- band, Captain C. R. S. Simmons,
to Curacao, Florida, Singapore,
Bombay and Abadan. She has no family.
So she knows the ropes and speaking of ropes she said: "This time I'm taking a
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difficulty aboard a tanker is to get enough exerciso.
There's only the dying bridge and monkey island to walk about on. I put on two stone on the last trip to the Far East, which listed a year."
MrsSubmona
shares her husband's roommy quarters. They have two sleeping cabins, A-day
The company make no charge for the wife.
squad, tool
gardod
of n
HIS ARMY pals always re- When President Truman heard paratrooper Richard of the incident he told reporters Beckam as a tough guy. There that the men who "But our husbands complain is no longer any doubt on the Koren should be treated exactly fought in that they don't have any money subject. Beckam, now a house the same as veterans of other now we go to sea-we spend painter in Fairbanks, Alaska, wars. And he hoped Congress all in the ports," Mrs. Simmons pavement. He broke one rib.
fell six storeys on to a concrete would do something about it said
AMON
millionaire
auction
quickly,
CARTER, multi- · EIGHTY - TWO - YEAR - OLD Before she sails on her next publisher, dropped in at the 08-year-old Robert Gray In an Texas newspaper James Harper had a fight with trip Mrs Simmons is moving touc a new house in Torquay.
"We thought about giving up our home altogether, but we decided against it. We should
of the furnishings of hotel at Butte, Montana, They Now York's Ritz Carlton, Hotel were disputing as to who should (being torn down), and bought have first go at the ice water. present for his son. the famous Men's Bar as a Sald the
#You Judge, must learn to get along together.
THE HUSBAND, and
THEX were just about to bury
tivo"
to spend leaves in hotels in a pauper's grave "poor" old train of Rex Harris again. "Bell,
all the time and it's nice to Louis Houseman, a 70-year-old
and Lüli
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