MEMO TO MISS MEADOWS:
PLEASE SCRAP A BATTLESHIP
This is what happens when it is announced - as it was recently that warships of the Royal Navy are to be scrapped By J. P. L. Mallelieu, MP
CAN нce it now--the ment in the Marsden 17 ship's company of moved is Miss Meadows, and I HMS Marsden, stiff Wald ike to think that
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her mothering influence which
and unhappy on the engres But the Marsden's quarter - deck. while the badge or crest is preserved.
Some day that crest my
呟い
Faith-anniversary of Tratalitar. w.presented to the church at Batherge
10 Norfolk where the great Nelson's father wie varor and where he himself was chantesssed.
skipper tells them the news, to a town or village which had This ship. In which w text the Marsden, rather as have all served su long is the red of HMS Nelson, on the now to be scrapped." hr suys druptly. "Turn for ward, dismisa!" The sallon shuffle away in silence nud, two weeks beer, as the san Vanhou into the Mes
ta may stay in store the Wite Ensign is hauled cham
day down for
Inst the
tiny as the Marsden is bull-f
1.4 kunsentimental Navy there is scarcely a dry eve It washed be a moving MYHE
1 2
If
1.
here the Marsden Tools
to her death bed. the men wins led in her had gone to other Nope, forgetful
1:
For Jer ur. montis, even for yeu le lav 4. Sant dyed wall and through her last night un tref Her Majesty's ships. her "re" would have Con wisted at the most of a single sentry, blowing on his Ang anet longing to a mornito.
SURPRISING
This islesongly
kand a bille
senti-
But it is even THORS SUL PIANINK
1 Anel that among those Admiralty --that most
Ministries- with t
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masculin
Demand
In the disposal of the Marsden, there were not only two ard- hended beats. Mr J, M. Mackay. head of the Miliary Branen, and Captom B. 1. Macient, IN. the then Theector of Piaus 1214 ALSO
Muss in Meadows.
WORDRING
Miss Meadows joined the Pust Office 23 years ago, and in 1937 she transterred
Admiralty.
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For toc past five years, on Higher Executive Officer in the of the Military Feet Section Branch, she has teen one of the
Desween Whitehall TELKA
Mone
The ships at sen.
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kt who know wontan, Captains and, through ein, so many sais persondly,
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it sounds.
RESERVE FLEET
This is what happens.
tu the Jeet struingie policy laid down
metal
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the overament, Je of 1 likely
Sub-
boy
average
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about 20 years, 1 woah pa - haps, live might be spent at the Reservo Fleet
There depending on the de-
gree of tension
and the unvent
in the world
money that
the Government is prepared to
spend on the Navy, as lite may revive trots me to me.
In present conditions,
years
UNSENTIMENTAL
likes to repeat S favourite
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`CARE TO ADD A NEW INSTALMENT, Mr SECRETARY ?”,
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
Night!-in
the
'Naked City'
East of Hollywood, T. E. B. Clarke is the most famous script writer in films. Now the Oscar- winning man who wrote the celebrated string of comedies that included "Passport to Pimlico" and The Blue Lamp" is taking his passport west TO HOLLYWOOD, discovering America as he goes-and reporting his discoveries in his own' acutely observant way for the China Mail. First: New York (once filmed as "The Naked City"). Time: Night. Action! on a U.S. "Blue Lamp" story.
This was some experience!
T
ME
patro streaked Brodway The lights,
car across
of Ave and evening. against prised if you could think of
sire une we didn't strike.
seven in the pile of and IE be sur
Thi | shrieking, and pulled up
and
The lieutenant was well any outside a small dry cleaners satisfied, especially over the
in 40th Street. We tumbled
so-called "hotel" where the out.
proprietor an unmistak able "junkie," or drug ad- diet assured us that he
zate, she is more likely to spend
Tast her
inactive silent except for the Impersonal aftentions
maintenance Das Urg
It is only when her lite
A
is
white-faced woman, trying self-consciously to
nearly over at Trmally she hide her shaking hands bad booked in only two re-
becomes an object of interest to anyone again, and then the man who takes an interest in her is the Flag Officer Commanding the Reserve Fest. He is asked from time to time to submit to Admiralty
the
names number of
of
ships for scrapping and this time, atter considering her are, comition and class, he put Marsden on its list.
txt But his
was
described how. three minutes ago, she had been stuck up" at the point of
a knife by a hoodlum who had grabbed the contents of the till.
chased
A neighbouring shop
haut
him not the keeper execution warrant. Thai can round the corner
"and come
their Lord- only
from
then he kinda disappear- Clov chips personally and the
ed." ernment; and before they decide, many departments of Admiralty will have studied the Marsden
to see whether even now, from their point of view, she should not be given a reprieve.
COLDLY
'MY CHANCE'
It Is only when Captain RADIO orders
MacLean and Mr Mackay, coldly
went out for police to surround and objectively, have considered, the block while a lieutenant
that all the
objections,
sidents.
IN
Hittle
text-books ind Lorsy-tall hairdo's."
Night Court
far mis- demeanours. To it guts every intscreant urrested in New York սի a non-belony charge up to 11 p.m.- ed in" at a precinct (or police -after first being "book-
Identified by a green stafiori), lump over its main entrance.
Drunks, vagrants. gamblers lighters, degenerates, is, "junkies"-from all areas they are swept after dark into the Criminal Courts Building like some roaring river of sewage.
makes an
TICKET TO HOLLYWOOD No.
by
T. E. B.
CLARKE
tr
the
ofter
a
appearance
under a helter system they'd morning "line-up" before an hove doctors looking audience of detectives, one of
'em." whom may recognise him us
And #guin: "This man already wanted for another cosmopolitan
cily
that and
of hot- got plenty heads. They flare up casy-pul!
offence.
"Line-up" puts one
in mirul
ments we
of some macabri vandeville a knife or a gun and then resi I guess it's their Latin
show.
One by one the prisoners walk on to brightly fit stage and stup al a microphone.
Front the back of the auditorium they are questioned by 2011 interrogator in a high chair.
"John, did you shoot and kili woman?"—this to a tail, that shambling, expressionless Negro,
"I did." No other word, no sign of emotion.
case.
Next
A Puerto Rican girl alleged to have been 11 possession of marijuana Not a single word elgarettes. from this one,
scow! Just round the audience she couldn't sec.
A
'NOT FAIR'
גוט
Д
"HEAVY-EYED youth
robbery charge protests agulant his Identification parade. The gowned magistrate, elder "It wasn't fair. All the other ly and inspassive, might be sit- was nice clean boys. I was the ting at Bow Street except for only drug addict there." the Stars and Stripes hanging
THE 'TEC
11
I
fortles A man in his DOUBTS of his god faith behind him; but never at Bow
were justified by the Street was there such hustle as burglary charge, flapping search:
found we
During the half hour I sat arms like an agitated penguin as mine this.
in Night Court
50 he dentes his gullt upping more than rooms occupied.
prisoners made their brief them ever more wildly in vehement, futile denial as a long appearuncca. "I'm going to be a popu-
list of previous convictions lar
read out. the Vice
ΟΙ drunk guy with
...Omcially, Squad when report on "junkie" must not be arraigned
on
1
his
s
But what of the men who
against
that dump," said the lieut until he is capable under bring these charges?
enant cheerfully as we drove Away.
11
Hu "Caro to
He indicated an apparent unshaken "bum" loung- ing in dark doorway. "Glad to see Joe's on this job. One of the best men we've got."
she of detectives conducted goes before the final court; and house-to-hottse search.
decides against her she is not yet dead. turned to me:
even when that court
Arrangements must be made string along?"
with the British Iron and Steel Corporation, who will
In fact
I was to find that New York's
Would ! Six years ago, scrap the Marsden, through the while scripting "The Blue detectives have a quite remark Directur of Contracts, who is responsible
scrapping Lamp," I had seen Scotland relves unobtrusively ate them contract. A list is complied by Yard at work; now,
for the
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A varied background.
the Director of Dockyards of all guest of New York. I was usable equipment still In the
an outstand- Marsden, and,
on this being offered acting
information, naval parties wling chance to compare ex-
descend on the Marsden to strip periences.
her of anything that the Navy
might still want.
into
of slending the charge
under him; but
this Fort
of What kind of a guy is he who pressure there is some clustielty works under the sign of the York of opinion about his condition, green lamp the New
and more than one staggering "cop"?
prisoner required the firm sup- porting hand of his escort.
RAVING
The odds are that he is
movics Irish as the
suggest- though there are "cops" here of
He every shade of colour. armed, of course, and he is tough he has to be. But never once did I gerise a suggestion of brutality In that toughness. distant jungle-like rear. "Come Forget those Ideas of a third and see the cells," invited the Forget those
[["HROUGHOUT the court pro- a ceedings 1 was aware of
their chief warder.
If he added,. "you've got a strong stomach,"
འ
1 Court-
light.
a pitiless flood-
I can testify that there was no I needed it. Here was a scene. less patience, no more bullying, Attendiz Night
unforgotte blo ex straight out of Hogarth. Three than I have seen in similar cir another perlenco--it was often Impossible long corridors of greca-barred cumstances with our own C.I.D. to plek out captor from captive cells, with eight or ten prisoners until one noticed the liver packed
into each shouting,
So there at last the Marsden And this was some ex- shield pinned to lumber jacket cursing, singing, retching, sob-
lien, rusting and forlorn, no perience....
changed in outline now by the
that even her most strippers
We failed to uncover our passionatu
would admirer
out recognise hor no more; and then man ----
"He'll come
the morning breaks when the when he thinks the heat's
more, when the
civilian ship-
or rogged shirt.
'DICKS'
Lie
bing or raving for "ixes." (A war" in a nhai of heroin.)
Iteaven forbid we are ever confronted in our own country with the kind of drug problem New York Ideen.
HOTHEADS
when
I
WAS present
four
suspecta in a stabbing affray were being interrogated by tho Homfeldo Bqund and they were of some
under the Impression at the prisoners were accompanied A February night, yet the time that I who one of the
uniformed patrolmen, atmosphère was stingr "No precinct detectives. We most of their escorts
nir conditioning wore
down NOTE," the warder. elothes from
White Ensign 15 holsted off and one of the boys'll THOUGH kedpers clatter aboard and light grab him," said the lieut by brazlers on the deck, when the chant confidently-but
for the
2
can
Many prisoner wng "the naval sentry blows on his uncovered just about every gum-chewing "teks" in Cry imagine want it's like in mim- poor guy" to the policeman whic Kers and marchen off fast time and the tugs of the thing else: for it was a block style of plain British Iron and Steel Cor- abounding in low bars and the blue dungarees of the long- inst. And thin, by the way, is arrested him.
aloreman to this palo pin-stripe quiet night. Fridays and Satur- The warders in that stifling we live. to pack 'em in hell under the Night Court like it was the subway.
spoke sympathetically about
poration slowly drag hot away | Nop-housewi
fromh
tile Service whielt had
boen her life.
And yet she is not wholly
dragged away. One of the people
Who sees that the usable equip
Imagine any purpose
of the city slicker.
to
days
A Belødtar'in à gravớc chârgo
.
the majority of their charges, "
"We schhetimes and the youngstore dut ad college boys! which a brass ralied bed can I was told, yeah, and palics as brought us hoke day in ratory "Drink and OFURS AFS DISERJET be put betwoon the hours women, as schoolgirls with a Court, but before going there he with this bunch. Reckon
sorry
perhaps most
of this tolerant under- standing: "It's dope cruses half
the crime here. A Junkie desperate for
do a Ax-be'll just about anything to get the
money.
You can't really say Door guy's in his right
the mind."
Yet many "cop" has gone to the hospital or the morgue as a result....
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