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BRITAIN WILL
But
TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 8, 1938.
NOT MAKE WAR
FOR SHIPOWNERS' PROFITS
Would
Fight
For Our Liberties
-The Premier
Our first duty is to keep the peace; we would fight, but only to preserve our liberties; we will not involve the world in war because some shipowners may be prevented from making bigger profits.
the keynote of a This was speech on Britain's world policy made by the Premier last month at a National Government Rally at Boughton Park, near Ketter- ing.
He also revealed that Britain had
dune all that was necessary to ensure
food supplies in time of war,
"Although I am daily subjected to
KNIGHT
PLEADS
FOR SON
barrage of missiles by nir blood- PRISON SENTENCE thirsty pacifists in the House of Com- mans I am none the worse for it," said the Premier.
. Before James Monteith Erskine, 31- years-old stockbroker of Hillside "It is a striking fact and a tragic Road, Ewell, Surrey, was sentenced one thint at the present time foreign at the Old Batley last mouth to nine affairs are dominating the minds of months imprisonment, his 75-years- the people of this country almost to old father, Sir James Erskine, and his, the exclusion of subjects which in young wife, mother of twins, pald ordinary times would have occupied tribute to him. their whole attention," he continued.
"Indeed, we are not alone in that respect, for I think all the peoples of the world are asking themselves this same question, 'Are we to be allowed to live our Ilves in peace or are we to bo plunged against our will Into WAF?!"
Erstene had pleaded guilty to the fraudulent conversion of shares which had been entrusted to the firm of Erskine and Company, Mr. Gerald Howard prosecuting, said that ellents shores were sold and handed to the bank where there was an overdraft. About £5,000 was involved,
Mr John Maude, on his behalf, said We had won the war in which we Erskine's business was the fontasti- fought to preserve our free demoe-alty stupid one" whereby members racy from foreign domination and of the publie were allowed to gamble dictation, and to maintain the rule on the stock market on a murgin, of order and law rather than the rule of farve.
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"Certainly Ave succeeded preserving our freedom and if in danger our liberties Were again, and if we were sure that there was no other way of pre- serving them except by war, we would fight again.
"It Is those thoughts which have made me feel that it was my prime duty to strain every nerve to avoid a repetition of the Great War in Europe.
LOST £7,000
Last autumn the slump came and hit the sort of shares which had been used for these speculations. Erskine did not realise for some weeks tunt they were insolvent to anything like the figure that had been mentioned.
His method of nitempling to help clients was by taking This poorer
stocks out of the safe deposit box where the richer clients had their securities.
Erskine himself had lost between
After judges in Los Angeles for the Pacific Advertising Clubs had looked over scores of faces and figures, they chose Betty Green, above, as "model model," for 'ndvertising illustrations. Accordingly, she was awarded the championship trophy,
PERSECUTION OF JEWS
Methodist Pastor's "Solemn Protest"
Girl Cries After Being Given Sight
Operation That Shattered Her. Dream-World
Gift of sight shattered the dream- world of a blind West Country girl! and brought temporary dialllusion ment.
Born blind, Miss Mudge Brewer, of) Calne, Wilts, now aged 27, thought ali people beautiful and had "happy- looking faces.
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E. Pellegatti ('Cello) And L. A. Lafford (Piano) "NEW WORLD" SYMPHONY
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a Frequency at 845 lcc's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. m.c's. per and 8-11 p.m.
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H.KT, (ML). 12.00-12.20 p.m. of Intercession Cathedral.
Relay of Service from SL. John's
12.30 Lesllc. Ilutchinson Piano.
12.40
Band.
London Plano-Accordeon
at the
Once In A White (Green-Ed- wards); I'm Delighted To See You Conc (From An operation gave her sight when Again (Hackforth); she was a grown woman-a rare case Love On The Bun'). so late life-and she saw ugliness and unhappiness,
"At first she was very depressed Rosalie (Thomas and Englemon); and wept a lot," writes Dr. R. Calley, Our Days Together (Kennedy ophthalinic surgeon of the Bath Eye Curr); Don't Dingle Dangle On The Infirmary, where the operation was Old Garden Wall (Butler, Damerell carried out. "In fact, se must have and Evans); The Vamp Of Havana and Sullivan); The Cuba- gone through great emotional, strain.
(Gilbert Зего (Cuban Rhythm Dance-Banker, Young and Sires); Campus Moon (Smith, Sacco and Coots)
TWO WORLDS "Probably she had not realised that she would have to learn alt about visible objects and more or less start again at the beginning. She was be- tween two worlds."
1.00 Time and Weather.
and
1.93 Carroll Gibbons and His Boy Friends.
Bub
Some Other Time-Fox-Trot; Fatal Fascination-Fox-Trot; Dr. Colley describes the crossing bling Over (Carroll Gibbons). over from the world of darkness to plano Solo-Carroll Gibbons: Page the world of sight, and how the
Miss Glory Fox-Trot (From the operations broke through the curtain Flim): Sweet Dreams Sweetheart- of her blindness.
Will Love Find A Way- Fox-Trot;
"On gradually obtaining her sight. Slow
A Little Bit Inde-
the first thing the noticed was the pendent mot: I Want A Fair
white apron by a nurse, then the red And Sun colour of a dress. The window had "Aunt
Piano Duet-Car- Man (Theme Song
no shape but appeared as a bright roll Gibbons and atca,
and the sky white.
Later she saw her hands and fingers but could not distinguish her nails. The second colour she noticed was green.
"When she first saw a building it appeared a dark object with no shape. After she got her glasses buildings Tooked luge, but she had no precon- ceived idea of their shape or appear- ance of different types."
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Stars Fell On Alabama (Perkins).
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Mozart Symphony No. 34 In C (K. 338).
Played by the Royal Philharmonie Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.
Close Down. 2.15
Dance Musle, Fox-Trots Admiration: Go-Round....Duke Ellington His Orchestra; Slow Waltz-A: The Cars and people seemed to be Close Of A Long Long Day: Rumba Lons coming straight at her. When blind Fox-Trot-Cubor. Pete Joc
vocal re- she had not bumped into things but and His Orchestra
Whistling-Plano when she first relied on sight she did frain; Piano and and stumbled up and down stairs.
Medley No. 2; Intro: Easter Parade; She thought animals were much With every breath I take; His Ma- One good time deserves another; case where the money find been put
went she to the Zoo.
The big bad wolf was dead....Ro- into his pocket. He went to the Hartley Theological College, Man- when
She imagined bears were as largeld Gourley; Fox-Trot-Take United States, but it was not a ques-chester, after his induction recently
Heart; Waltz-Stars In My Eyes tion of running away. When he as president, at the opening of the as elephants and the latter much art
annual conference of the Methodist larger still. Dogs and cats did not
(From
The heard that the firm was "hammered" Church at Hull, made "a solemn pre-appear larger than she expected
King Steps test against the persecution of the probably because she had touched w with vocal
refrain: ihem when blind.
Miss Brewer now says she is very dam-Ah! La Marquise-Ah! Quickstep
I Like Bananas. He said: "I know that in the past
Joe Loss and ...JO Mr. Maude added: "There is oặc acroplanes of British ships entering
His Orchestra with vocal refrain; "When I could not see I felt I was Fox-Trots Sugar Rose; Sing Me A zone of hostilities in Spanish thing that the general public may history of our own country there have thrilled with life.
Now I feel there is Swing Song....Nat Gonelin and His ports, and the Government had been forget, but when I ask your Lord-been discreditable happenings of this denounced in the House of Commons ship to remember. He came back kind, but when I read of the brutal at a standstill. for allowing the British tag to be He is proud of it, and his family is treatment of the Jews in Europe to-so much to do and I can join in every-Georgians with vocal refrain by Nat
day my blood boils. The persistent thing with other people," she added. proud of it." insulted.
and devilish tortures infileted on thei Jews to-day are such that beside their instigators even Nero might pass for a gentleman."
£7,000 and £9,000. This was not a The Rev. W. Landsdell Wardle, of larger than they turned out to be jesty the Baby; June in January:
PERIL IN SPAIN
"Ever since the beginning of the war in Spain, my colleagues and realised the inherent danger of the
situation!"
The situation had been complicated by the bombing by General Franco'a
the
be at once returned to England.
"PERFECT SON"
of
Erskine, Sir James Monteith "Long ago the Government had
S.W... speaking warned British ships that we would Eccleston Square,
with great emotion, said: "He baa protect them only on the high seas. been a perfect sen to his father and
"Well now, the risks which are rut
I have never known him by these ships literally mean that the mother.
wrong action. rate of freight which has to be paid do
Jcws,
PROFIT BEFORE TRUTH Discussing the "evil of a Press are "1 regard this as the result of men-dominated solely by the desire for is very high and shipowners getting as much as four and five tal and physical aberration caused profit," Mr. Wardle said: "I would times the ordinary rates of freight by the suffering of his clients. He gladly recognise that there is much to is the successor to a proud, and, I be proud of in British journalism even for voyages to these ports.
" would like to put this question hope, a great name.
We have given
ven this warning, his sentence itke a man."
to you in spite of H. and for the
sake of making these profils, these shipowners still send their ships to these waters and they get bombed, is
is it reasonable that we should be asked to take action which might presently involve not only them but you in the Horrors of war, and you are not getting any profits at all?"
FOOD PROBLEM
Mr. Chamberlain then turned to the food problem and suid:
Hawkers To Be Expelled
Gandila: Hawaiian Guitar Solo- Waltzing To The Gultar-Medley.
Len
Fillis (Hawallan Guitar): Con Canto-The Tango of Con Canto-A The "Mula" Waltz Con
Tanro
Tipica Francisco Canaro; ques
It
am
and; Whoop -You Don't Understand; Up. Cla
Clarence Williams and His Washboard Band; Fox-Trot-1
Waltz--I Playing Farewell To Have A Heart For Lovely Women.. ..Fred Stein (Piano Solo).
Sonore
Corneas, Venezuela, June. Government authorities have be- He will take to-day. There are honourable papers gun listing all foreign peddiers and 7.00 Samo French Songs.
and
splendid journaUsts.
hawkers who are without licences to
Noel Palen (Silvestre and Musse- "But I know of no greater danger sell, presumably for the purpose of net).. Edmond Kambaud (Tenor). to the community than that type of expelling them from the country. with. Orchseira; Le Chant Du Marin, journalism which, for the sake of The measure is aimed At those (Film
"Dans tous les ports profit, exploits the sadistic and the "who do not bencat the country du monde'); Le Lieutenant Souriant pornographic, and for thirty pices of either culturally or materially and (Film Sonore La Taratatpres will polson the walls of truth. whose business is detrimental to the Adrien Lamy with Orchestra; Aupres "Yet I venture 10 say that national economy."
De Ma Blonde (Chant populaire de Methodist homes probably spend more These particularly affected by the File-de-France): Lo Prit Quinquin on papers whose sole purpose is profit measure will be Poles, Rumaniana (L'erinchon dormoire-A Desrous- at the expense of truth than on the and Jews who mainly sell trinkets in more reputable journals."
rutul communities.
Lost £30,000 By Trick
By means of one of the oldest of confidence tricks the Magle Box-
"business associates" of д "We are predominantly a trading some
West End Frenchman staying in and industrial nation. We sell manu- factured goods abroad to the Empire hotel, got away with nearly £30,000
in of his money in notes.
and also to foreign countries, and
The Frenchman, who gave his return we buy from them very large quantities of food and raw materials. name as M. Robbins and his address "What would happen if we were as Paris, left for France after re- to grow all the food we needed at porting hts loss to Scotland Yard home!
und teiling officers what he knew of men involved. "The first thing would be that we should ruin those Empire and
The Magic Box trick has for years.
foreign countries which are de- been a profitable source of income to
course,
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pendent on our markets. "And the next thing would be, of the bolder "con."men. The victim is that, as their purchasing told that the box can make two power had been destroyed, those Bank notes out of one through an markets would no longer be able to intricate process of splitting them
edgewise. manufactures buy our
"Up, therefore, would go our un
MET IN PARIS employment figures, and the unem- ployed, in turn, would have to reduce their purchases of the farmers' pro- ducts.
from
US.
"And so in the end the final sufferer would be the farmer himself
The idea that we could be starved out in war was tallacious.
I
"But there are two precau- ilons which I think it is necessary for us to take.
"First, we must provide against the dislocation after an air attack, and keep reserves to enable us to tide over that first emergency period.
Those reserves have already been
laid In.
PLANS READY
"In the second place; we can case; the strain upon our shipping and upon our Navy in time of war if we con reduce the amount of cargo space that would be required.
"We can do that by increasing in
HE-MEN SHOULD
WED SHE-WOMEN
KNOW your man before you marry him, Dr. Winifred Rushforth, Edinburgh psychotherapist, warned girls at a Y.W.C.A. lecture in London. Courting curly-headed men just for their looks is courting disaster, she said.
when some men," she ndded, i were looking for someone to look up Pare merely looking for second to them and advorlise them to the mother, and they usually specialise world. Milton, she added thought- in aches and pains for their wives fully, had not made a success of his
marriages. to look after."
M. Robbins met his "business ass
in Paris. They clates"
travelled with him to London, and persuaded him to cash a
Managing women should marry cheque for nearly £30,000. He took the money to his gentle characters, and "he-men" only hotel. The police are still making womanly women.
Mony men, he the poet Milton, inquiries.
chestr. M. Jean Sorbler with Or-
7.15 Musical Comedy Selections. "The Desert Song" Selection (Romberg)....Savoy Orphicans at the Savoy Hotel, London; "Bitter Sweet" (Coward); Dear Little Cate; Wood ...Peggy god George Metaxa with Orchestra;
Millionaire
KidSelection
I' Sec You Again...
and
ayerl)....New Mayfair Orchestra with vocal refrain; "Crest Of The Wave"-Selection (Ivor Novello, arr. The Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra conducted by
Prentice)
Charles Prentice, Mur, Bac.
to
7.43 Closing Local Stock Quota-
"The
Voign
7.41 London Relay—"Pirates"," A talk by Richard Hughes. 8.00 Time, Weather and Announce ments.
8,03 Marek Weber's Orchestra and Webster Booth (Tenor),
Tales Of Hoffmann"-Potpourri (Offenbach)
.Orchestra; Merry Widow Waltz (Lehar) ...
Qunker Girl' Dr. Rushforth went on to give ad-Orchestra: "The
Sweetheart Waliz (Monckton); Waltz vice on preparing young people for
Orchestra; (J. Strauss). marriage.
"You can't start too young," is her This Year Of Theatre Land, 1930.
and Webster Booth; principle, and she advised young ma-Janet Lind
Banks
Of The Along The thers
to bring up their children in
of Russian Waltzes- NEW THERMOMETER plate with themselves, Supr Borchert)....
out MusicMed "Land. With-
(O. Straus).... plying their needs and answering honestly all their questions. Pasadena, Cal.
life, sold the doctor, Webster Booth with The Lindonel Comment:
Strauss)...
..Orchestra. (J. new super-thermometer that was
innovation, Three; "Die Fledermaus" Selection. will measure the temperature of any for there's safety in numbers."
6.45 Sudio A Recital by Ettore "It is dangerous to let 10-year Follogatti ("Cello) and Lindsay A. large object such as a building, six miles away, was demonstrated here olds of opposite soxes go hiking in Lafford (Piano)
Itwosso
sho added. "They haven't
1. Sonata (Ch. Spowin]); Largo; recently,
enough critical faculty developed to
Allegro
gro Spiritoso; Grave; Minuetto;
Un D
Trovatora (A. The Instrument resembling a teles-protect them from each other.
She urged that women doctors 2 Lamento
3. Scene.Do Carnaval; 1. Marian!); 3. cope and aimed like one, was do- veloped by Dr. John Strong, of the should be sought to co-operate in all Arlequin 2. Pourquoi?; 3. Conte." 0.13 Soprano And Baritona Ballads Caufornia Institute of Technology. schools, and that the Y.W.C.A. should Fainted skyward, it registers the do everything in its power to help
The Shepherd Boy's Song (Pop- per); A Song For You And Me sup-temperature of the sun or of clouds parents and children alike to found
30 miles high-United Press.
happy homes.
(Continued on Page 11.)
While he was at dinner his friends disappeared from table under some pretext; when he went upstairs he found that not only had they vanish- cd but to had the magic machine- with all his notes inside it.
war time the amount of food we grow, and I may tell you that
we have our plans all worked out for increasing the amount of food wo grow in an emergENOF, and those plans would functioni as soon as hostilities began.
"I bellave we have done all that is necessary to secure our food piles in time of war."
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