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April 17, 1939:
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King George, on a visit to the British Industries Fair nt Birmingham, England, inspects one of the air-raid shellers now being produced in large quantilles in England.
Bus Conductor Helps Healer Run Church
Films For All Ships In
The
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INDIAN CONGRESS:
CHIEFS RESIGN
Bombay.
Royal Navy
Duke of Kent Inaugurates Scheme
:
The Duke of Kent presided at in the hangar of the new 'nireratt
La dinner at the Royal Naval Barracks, carrier Ark Royal.
Portsmouth, recently nt which WHEN FAR FROM HOME there were present members of the Board of Admiralty,
The provision of up-to-date sound many naval flm equipment and films for and chiefs of the film Royal Navy is not only a question of Aributing industry.
effect on morale, part-
The dinner WOB hold
thu
The prospects of Federation brc not improved by the decision of 12
to in benenein alertainment. It has ni out of 15 of the Congress Central sugurate the Royal Naval Filin Cor- cularly in the case of ships: com Executive to resign following theporation, of which the Duke of Kent pantes serving far controversy over the re-election la patron, and to mark the fruition for from. the
of a long period of work to provide clylilsation. Mr. Bose as President of Congress,
from home and
usual amenities of These members of the Iligher Com-the men of the Royal Navy with It had already been decided that mand represent the Right wing of the modern cinema entertainment on ships should be provided with cinema board their ships, no matter in what equipment for Instructional purposes. felt movement: It is consequently that the field is left clear now for the tue of the way comer of the world Money for the purchase of this equip-
they are serving." Left who placed uncompromising
ment was provided by the Admirally, hostility to Federation in the fore-
After dinner a film won shown and within the next eighteen months front of their programme for the election of Mr. Bose.
Mr. Vallabhbhai Patel Intimated. the Right wing's decision to Mr. Bose,
that formal resignation would
deferred untill Mr. Bose's reply
be
had been received.
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As this equipment is also suitable Hong Kong Depot, Tel. 21279. Mr. Bose drafted two resolutions
for showing entertainment aims, the Peak Depot, which he submitted to-day to a meet- ing of representative Congressmen cluded several high naval officers, as of these to ships
A distinguished company which in-next problem was. the provision of up-to-date films and the circulation fram different Provinces. These will well na many well-known leaders of yt
wherever they be debated at the forthcoming Tripura industry and representatives of all ganisation was in operation, its cost might be. Once the distribution or- Congress. A lively fight between the the British railway companies, wit Socialists and Communists against nessed recently an intereating de-could be met by small subscriptions RONALD FRANKAU. (The Ace of Humourists)
or constitutional Congressmen is monstration of mechanical coal-firing sum was required to initiate the pur- from the men; but a large capital expected.
on board the Dover-Dunkirk train chase of alma. Factory Sel on Fire The Wimco ferry steamer, Shepperton Ferry. With Stanley Charles Cutforth, a crosses. The walls of the meeting- the extent of $10,000 by a fire to-day room. It is fed to the mechanical generosity of the great body of naval factory at Madras was damaged to No coal is handled in the boiler This was provided through the bus conductor, and Frederick Batt, rooni are lavender coloured. At the The outbreak is believed to have lokers by gravity, Accordingly, no 50lp builders. An initial sum of i a young printer, thirty-four years entrance old, Mr. Bishop runs
a box labelled Church of Christian Fellowship in a is a gift sign In Chinese.
the Islington "Farthing Fund," and on the door been caused deliberately by workers manual labour or shovels are used £20,000 was placed at the disposal
whose demands for increased wages in feeding the furnaces. had been rejected.
BY DAY, Mr. Robert George Bishop is a telephone operator in a London store.
BY NIGHT, dressed in a surgeon's white gown, he is a healer to pale and anxious women.
converted workshop at Duncan-ter-i
race, Islington, N.
there is
These young men hold six services Fish For Decoration
a week. At niost of them there is, a
Blage when the names of the sick!
ure read out
Then men and women go forward
are
SYDNEY, Australla.
Organizers of a local movie ball
Dying Man Sentenced
MONTREAL.
ECONOMIC
of the Royal Naval Film Corporation, which enabled them to purchase {up-to-date Alms for circulation It was pointed out by the engineers among ships, from the showing of that in ships carrying much more conl which there would, of course, be no than the cross-Channel ships gravity income for a considerable time. feeding is not practicable, and in The distributors of the Alm indus- these cases coal can be conveyed by try have also been exceedingly to the "altar" rails, painted in king-lendeavoured to go Hollywood one
mechanical plunt to the mechanised generous in fixing the terms under stokers. fisher bluc, and their heads
Alphonse Duhamai, 55, has started
which films can be exhibited in the touched by the hands of Mr. Cut-betler by using live Ash and doves a three-year prison terin which he so well satisfied with the efficiency
The Southern Railway Company is Fleet. forth, or Mr. Bishop, or Mr. Batt. for decorations. The multicoloured may not live to complete. Dying of and economie saving of the
CHARGE OF zd, A WEEK coal- The sufferers kneel before the fish were contained In transparent tuberculosis and so weak he could firing method
As a result it will be possible in "altar covered with tulips, daffo- lampshades in a Geisha garden while not stand. Duhemel pleaded guilty to Shepperton Ferry that it has just whether stationed in a gunboat up employed in the the near future for Naval men- difs, irises, wallflowers, violets and the doves were trained to sit atop the obtaining money by fraud and was given an order for a new 22-knot the Yangtze River or on the West
four silvery set of a Viennese garden.
sent to prison,
coal-burning cross-Channel steamer. Coast of Africa to see up-to-date nims at a weekly charge of less than 28. coch.
Owing to the fact that ships are continually on the move, and are widely
scattered, the problem of film distribution is enormous. It is onc thing to be able to arrange a pro- gramme for a cinema show in Bir- mingham and another thing to or range for a programme an board HMS. Birmingham, which may be at Singapore one week and at Tsing- tau, 4,000 miles away, the following weck
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To overcome these problems it has
been necessary to establish Alim "libraries" at various points through- aut the world and to divide the Navy Into four "circuits."
FILMS TO BE SHOWN The whole of the organisation of Įthis distribution is in the hand of the Royal Naval Film Corporation, and the charge of less than 2d. per head per week will not only cover the cost of films, but the cost of freight and insurance.
In spite of every effort to provide good films for the Fleet, It has pre- viously been impossible to circulate up-to-date pictures owing to financial limitations.
Under the new schems, with the generous help afforded by the dis tributors, such alms as "The Drum," "Sixty Glorious Yenra," "Thc Citadel, " and "It's in the Air pre already on their way to the outlying units of the Royal Navy,
It fact, there will shortly be nearly 200 Alms on the high sens on their way to ships and squadrons,
Decree Nisi. For
Joan Revel
Mr. Mario di Pero, an Instru- mentalist, was a respondent before Mr. Justice Hodson in the Divorce court recently to a pelition by his wife, Mrs. Joan Mory Beatrice di Pietro, of Cathedral Mansions, West- minster, for the dissolution of her marriage.
MTB, di Pietro, who is also a musi- elan, professionally known as Joan Revel, alleged that her husband had been guilty of cruelty. The suit was hot now contested and a decree nisl, with costs, was granted.
Mr. and Mrs. di Pietro who were married in 1920: lived at Bucking- [ham-gate, London, and Bella Vista,
Totteridge, Horts. There aro children.
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Mrs. di Pietro's case was that on a number of occasions her husband lost his temper and throw things at her. He also struele her and had given her black eyes.
Drug Flown To Dying Man
To save a man's life in Rome, an | Impariat Airways flying-boat flew a
new drug there as "urgent freight."||
Signor Cinfuono a colleitor, went to the Imperial Airways office In Rome
and said that his brother was dying of blood-polsoning.
There was no injection In Italy which could save him. The only dopo lay in Dagenan, a new and- bacteria drug.
He asked the oficiais to
to rush supply from London.
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The Home Office cabled to London. and a supply was put on an Imperial Airways plane. The drug reached Rome, willila:24 hours of the call;
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I Don't Like Her Circle of Friends, R 2263. Good Morning Mr. Barlow.
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R 2039, Grub.
R 2230.
R 2109.
Music,
Faust De-Bunked. Don't Tell My Mother.
It's Getting Harder To Discover. And So To Bed.
R 2150. You Make My Wheels Go Round.
I Hate Vice.
R2130. I'd Rather Be A Savage,
R 2100.
I Couldn't Make To The Girl of To-day. Navy and The Army & The Plec. Have A Little Pity On Her.
R 2003. I'm Terribly Terribly British.
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