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SOUTHEND. THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD song-wrlier Ronald Ernest Crafer, who ran away from his home'in Dalmatin-road, Southend, recenty, returned home three days later,
His face was black with the smuts from the engine. He had travelled by train from London standing with his head out of the window so that the people in the carriage would not recognise him from the description in their evening papers,
Ronald's parents thought he had gone to the B.B.C. in London to try: to get musle ho had composed played on the radio,
After he had been well scrubbed, Ronald said he went to Kensington because he did not think he Was getting an equal break with others, and he wanted to go to an nudilon for Alm where boys of thirteen were wanted.
He found the audition was to be held at a later date and wandered round the museums till they closed.
"I drew out the 14s. I had in the bank before I left," he said. "After tie museums closed wandered to Battersea and slept the night on board motor-bit la the river.
"AIL
I wandered about: yesterday and slept in mostly 1a the boat again last night. To-day wandered along the river unt enme to Shadwell, where I caught a trains for Southend.
"1 knew to-day was half term at school and intended to be back in ime for my lessons in the morning.
GOERING BANS THE
“LAMBETH WALK
Members of the German Air Force are forbidden by a special deorce, signed by Field-Marshal Goering, to dance the Lambeth Walk.
This dance is said to present an "undignified picture not in keeping with the serious tasks of the Air Force,”
Air Force bands in uniform may not play the tune.
Despite this, and similar bana, remains the Lambeth Walk wildly popular throughout Ger- many.
The last of my 14s. went in buying
ticket home."
Mrs. Crafer sald: "Ronald has been trying to get music publishers or the B.B.C. to take up his songs.) He is a radio fan."
Actress's 6-Storey Death-Leap
NEW YORK.
Melancholy and tired of a life which brought her four hus- bands and four divorces, beautiful Gladys Frazin Banks, actress and former wife of Monty Banks, producer of Gracic Fields's films, sat by the window of her New York apartment all night recently contemplating suicide--and at dawn made the jump that killed her.
Spanish Children
UFS
Large families-that's what Generalissimo" Franco, Spanish dictator, likes. Here, at Burgos, he is being cheered after pre- senting subsidies to parents having the largest number of children under 14 years of age. Subsidies were given to 30 families in the area.
They Call Them Sardine Tins Down In Clarkson-St., E.
STANDING or sitting, which way do you take up least room? they were asking recently across the front fences in Beth- nal Green, E.
All along Claricson-street women
The Patiens have a cherry tree,
May, 2, 1939.
EMPIRE NEWS
INDIAN FINANCE BILL'S FATE
New Delhi
Mr. Jinnah scaled the fate of the Finance Bill in the Central Assembly recently by declaring non-co-opera- tion.
The Moslem League party, of which Mr. Jinnah is the head, is deeply concerned over the recent meetings between the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, and Mr. Gandhi. The party suspects that these meetings are designed to reach on understanding on Federation over the head of the Moslem oppositian.
Mr. Jinnah charged the Paramount Power in the States and the Gover nors in Congress-governed Provinces with falling in the protection minorities. He equally condemned Congress for the treatment of Mos- icms.
NEW SUMMER
SHOES
JUST UNPACKED THE LATEST SELECTION OF SMART WHITE SHOES FROM NEW YORK.
White
Dress and
of
Sport
Shoc
Stylos
He said that in both cases Moslems would fight to their last breath, but meanwhile to oppose the Government on details of, the Finance Bill meant helping Congress, since the League held the balance of power: There- fore he refused to vole.
This leaves Congress and its sup- porters outnumbering the Goverri ment, so that the bill, which includes the enhanced Import duty on raw cotton, will have to be certified by the Viceroy.
BRITISH GUIANA
JEWISH INQUIRY
ENDING
of
Georgetown, The members of the Commission investigating the possibilities Jewish immigration in British Guiana will all return from the Rupunun district shortly.
Mr. E. C. Botalfle, the financial expert, recently flew to New York. Two other American members. Dr. E. C. Ernst, the chairman, and Dr J. A. Rosen, left later,
The members will reunite in New
and children were waiting at front the only one in all the back-yards York. o: London to,draft their report..
doors, having a half-hour holiday of their street and the next one. from workt while delivery men heaved A.R.P. shelter parts into back-yards.
"They don't look big enough to hold all of us," said the women.
Mrs. Edith Stewart, who lives upstairs at No. 27 with her hus- band and baby, said: "We'll be live sardines, tin. and all."
Below the Stewarts live Mrs. Cordelia Cable, her husband, and their three children. "That's eight altogether in this house, if they don't get the children away in time."
He's about seventeen
"It's been here eighty years or more," she said. "In May you can smell it from way down at the other end of the row."
MUST WE PAY? The new sheller brought two pro- blems to Mr. and Mrs. Percy Wright, a few doors away from the Pattens.
PROBLEM Ñ».. 1: Mr. Wright Wents to know-Con a man really put up the shelter by him- self?
"If we can't," said Mr. Wright, Each shelter, according to officials, "we will have extra rates to pay."
Daniel J. King, town clerk of supposed to hold four people. But that brings little comfort to Bethnal Green, in a circular letter, Mr. and Mrs. Patten, at 23, Clark-saya: "The more people who get the council to erect and sink shelters, son-street. A taxi-driver cruising along West, and she was broken-hearted because "We are small enters, really," said the more will be the cost of your End-avenue saw her body, dressed she could not make a come-back." Mrs. Patfen. "We're just naturally rates; but this is better than having in cerise pyjamas, fall to the pave Mrs. Banks, who made her name big people.
the shelters not properly cont- ment from a sixth storey window.
structed."
"FORGIVE ME'
PROBLEM No:2: Mrs. Wright wants to know-How am I going to get the family into the shel- "We've five of us here, all adults,"
sald. "Then there is Oscar, the rabbit, and the birds (four budgerigars in two cages and five canaries]. Oh, and Freda too.""
In London by one line in on Ameri-stone, my husband. And look at me. can play. "The Trial of Mary I'm fourteen stone and six feet tall Dugan""You can't ride to hell in without high heels,"
wheelbarrow"-tried to retain her association with the stage by train-
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Beside her bed, which had not been slept in, the police found note which read: "Dear mother and ing her nineteen-year-old son Leo. Mrs. Patten worked out cubic dad,--Please forgive me for what But lately even that fusk did not capacities and decided there would am doing. I cannot suffer
any satisfy her yearning for the foot-just be room for them in their longer. Love, Gladys."
According to Raphael Sacks, an-lights, make-up and, above all, the shelter. But not much left over for
applause.
the young couple who live upstairs. tique dealer, who lived opposite,
She married Monty Banks, her The shelters, Oft. Oins. long, 4ft. Mrs. Banks climbed from the win fourth husband, secretly in Amerien Gins, wide, ft. high, would have 179.4
previous evening. looked up in 1020. They first met in a London cuble feet of space inside them--If And just to give Mrs. Wright an and down the street, then climbed hotel lift. Three years later they the roof didn't curve. The curve, extra problem there was a smear of Banks accusing her of cruelty and wall, cuts off about thirty cubic feet
"It's from these girders, lady," the the window. of Mrs. Banks had been depressed for He claimed that she was often in-
frequent disappearances from home. of the space.
delivery man said, "They're drip- Assuming the Pallens, broad-ping wet with paint." months. Each evening, according to toxicated.
shouldered and broad-hipped, to be cylindrical with diameters of twenty
dow
the
back.
out
Freda is the cat.
It is generally believed here that the Commission is impressed by the wide variety of raw materials con- vertible into industrial manufactures, such as glassware, pottery, textiles, and paper. At present the coastal population is supplying agricultural needs.
The commission consists of experts who were sent out to British Guiana by the American Advisory Commit- tee on Refugees.
Rice Mills Plan-A report by Mr. Harold Parker, manager of the Government rice mill at Perak, re- commends that the British Guiana Government should close privately- owned rice mills and take over the Industry. The Government would erect modern central units. CANADA.
FOREIGN POLICY TO BE OUTLINED
Ottawa.
A broad interpretation of Canada's foreign policy will be presented in
the House of Commons when the De- the Department of External Affaire, fence Estimates or the Estimates of are brontent of
He saw her later staring moodily were divorced--In-Hollywood, Mr. beginning about four feet up the red along the wallpaper-in the hall. detailed report on its foreign polley.
her brother, she went to bed dream-
the success sho
This was stated by the Prime Min- ister, Mr. Mackenzie King, replying to Mr. Thomas Church, Conservative member for Toronto, who declared it was time the Government gave D
ké Mackenzie King sald thought the appropriate time to dis- cuss the matter was when the Estim- ates were introduced, which will be as soon as current Government legis-
is disposed of.
Mr.
int of repeating, die auecay Con Men Lose Toots, bots, chairs ar benches, wil Hat Valued At $500 SOUTHERN RHODESIA
"White Cargo," And each dawn she awoke, Just another actress out of work.
This morning's down was the last she could face.
SHE NEVER FORGOT
Their Elder
take up twenty-six cuble feet of space. But human beings need more than their own cuble capseity to live its.
Philadelphia.
A man's Panama straw hat "valued Cleveland, O.
nt $500 was exhibited here at the When two confidence men asked 78- year-old Adolph Schuad to withdraw "I wonder if there will be any room convention of the Merchant Tailor $1,200 to prove himself a "substantial for air to breathe," said Mrs. Patten. Designers Association. The hat was "She was grief-stricken at being citizen," he agreed, but Insisted that "And I wonder if we can get the woven of braid thread-like in tex- unable
to get a job," said her they accompany him to the bank. shelter into the garden without up-ture and resembled brother, Louis Franzin. "She could They walked off rather than
enter rooting our tree." never forget her success on the stage, the bank, he said.
Germans Object To British Cantata
it was the original intention of the
festival authorities that a concert of Luise Rainer As Star
music by English composers should have formed port of the scheme, and among the items suggested by the Engilsh promoters of this concert was the cantata "Dona Nobis Pacem."
In Deval Comedy
kerchief,
FARMERS' SCHEME FOR MANUFACTURES
Salisbury.
Farmers are taking the leadin advocating the establishment of alinen hand-secondary Industries to manufacture primary products and to improve the local market for agricultural prices. A memorandum from the Mota- beleland Farmers' Union to the Economic Development Committee suggests a textile factory, a linned meat factory, the production of power alcohol from maize, the manufacture of sisal Abre, pepsin from papaws and starch from sweet potatoes.
Quinine First Line Of Defence Against Malaria
toured
The Committee's attention is also drawn to the possibility of sugar, rice, tea, coffee and hemp growing on a larger scale.
Own Funeral Arranged
PITTSFIELD, Mass. Here is one person who knows what her own funeral will be like. A Pittsfield woman has selected her casket, engaged the clergyman, set- tled with the undertaker, and is now making the dress she wishes to wear st her funeral.
"QUININE retains its place as the wanted. Drainage and irrigation in first line of defence against malaria," the countryside, where food and writes Mr. A. S. Haynes, former wealth are produced from Mother THE GERMAN Kulturgemeinde have objected to M.C.S. officer, in the Asiatic Review Earth, are moro important than
Model of Victoria Falls-Good buildings in towns. the performance of Vaughan Williams's cantata, "Dona in the East.
in an article on Malaria and Quinine indicct brings a long chain of progress is being made with the con- Nobis Pacem," at Baden Baden International Music common on Rural Hygiene which of rivers and other watercourses feature of the Colony's exhibit at the struction of the large model of the Mr. Haynes was chairman of the evils-soil erosion, gradual silting up victoria Falls which ill be the mala Festival.
Works by Italian, Hungarian, French, Dutch and other com- sia in 1936 preparatory to raised river beds, floods, malaria, World's Fair, New York. The model
apathy. By there
and will be 180ft. long and 22ft. high, posers were given at the Festival.
Java in 1937,
other means, we must.. attack the with 00,000 gallons of water passing There
of course, other contri-source, the mosquito in selected over it every minute. ore, butory defences which the individual reas and intensively at first perhaps. can undertake, such as the regular "There is great value in a demon- use of mosquito nets, better, sanita- stration of some successful scheme. tion, cleanliness in and around houses. There is also great value in small But in spite of the pre-eminent pince units of administration, which are Luise Rainer, the Hollywood film that the eradication of malaria by ly. To them it is more quickly clear occupied by quinine, the fact remains dexible and can decide and set rapid- star, who has been in London for drugs is impossible.
that the conquest of malaria is a good Whether the objection raised by the some weeks recently signed a con- German Kulturgemeinde applies to tract with Henry Sherek to make her about this; a planter friend of mine creating the right national habits,
"Planters could tell us something investment. There in value, too, in modern English musle in general or first stage appearance in England un-has not forgotten taking 40 grains of only to works by Dr. Vaughan der his management.
"In Malaya the Chinese drink Williams (who lately received the
quinine a day for three months.
bolled water (weak ten) and use Shakespeare prize in Hamburg) or is to take the leading part in a is not enough.
By her express desire Miss Rainer Drugs are a defensive policy. That mosquito nets. I don't know who whether the sentiments expressed in comedy, and a play by Jacques Deval,
in the dim past established among the text of this work are looked upon the French author of "Tovarich," has
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them ilise rational habits, must have a policy of
but with disfavour by the German Bu been chosen. The Ulle has not yet
attack; we must aim at nothing less
·ho was · ceriainly no doubter or thorities, is not clear.
Wäverer. than the conquest of malaria We Rehearsals have started. There
"And doubting and wavering are must attack the mosquito itself. will be a
a short tour of the provinces
Buch polley is good business; the things we have got to get rid "Dona Noble Pacem" is one of the before the production goes to London.
rubber Industry in Malaya, the Also we must get rid of the bricks- latest and most Impressivo. ef Luise Rainer is, the wife of the
fishponds and Floo-felds in Java and-mortar mentality, put first things Vaughan Williams's choral comport- American dramatist, Clifford Odets.
prove that. It is also good huma first and substitute attention to, for tions. The words are taken from the *-**--
neglect of, the countryside. Old Testament, from lines by John
"So in the end we must base our Bright and by Walt Whitman, In that message, coming from one of the with if the economic condition and tion. By this means we shall get a
There never has been a ilme when "Agriculture must be improved, and aims on a polley of rural reconstruc these the relative values of war and greatest living English musicians, the nutrition of the people. We have combination of all departments of the pesce are keenly and strikingly con would be more significant, and there already seen that better husbandry administration, and of all methods In no werk written by an English are many of those who wish to hold goes hand-in-hand with anti- suitable to the problem whether land composer within the last decade has people of Germany who will bitterly
out the hand of friendship to the molarial work,
Improvement and reclamation, or the longing for pence been more regret the decision that has been that water can be got on to land and spraying,
There must be water, control, so subsoil or other drainage, or clling paustoriately expressed.
naturalistic taken.
when wanted and got off it when not "methods,” adds Mr. Haynes.
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