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B.A.S FOR A.B.s AIM OF COLLEGE OF THE SEA
Bo'sun Behind With Libby Holman Homework:
SEA WAS
TOO. ROUGH
The bo'sun a sorry man is he, He couldn't do his homework Because of the stormy sea.
Married
Libby Holman, American torch singer who shared the Reynolds to- bacco millions, has been secretly married in Washington, to Ralph Holmes, twenty-three-year-old actor. Libby has been picture-news since
At one time it was suggested that she millionaire playboy, was shot in 1032. would marry Jack Doyle, boxer- singer. But Libby (and Jack) sald
SOMEWHERE OFF the west coast of South America | her husband, Zachary Smith Reynolds, was that unhappy sailor when he sent his sincere letter of apology to his school-the College of the Sca, in Endsleigh Street, W.C. The sea had been too rough for writing.
[Parents of small boys who see in this a new idea should emphasise that it can be very, very rough at sea and that home- work might be the leaser of the two ovils.J
The newly-founded college is receiving "homework" from ports all over the world-from Halifax (Nova Scotia) to Durban, and Vancouver to Sucz,
Among the batch which arrived | and scientifle units, and heads of arti recently were essays on "Life in a schools, Portuguese House," solutions of prob- lems in geometry by a deck boy of 10, and French exercises from a 'cellist in a ship's band.
"A ship la the one quiet spot where a fellow can work with his brain to day," explained a wireless operator on a tanker, who alms to get a degree In classics.
BRIDGE STUDENTS
The most popular courses promise to be short-story and novel writing, philosophy, foreign languages, astro- nomy and painting.
Spanish is much in demand. In one ship six men are learning li,
Among those who have inquired for instruction are captains, fremen, saloon boys, radio oficers, stewards, A.B.'s, engineers, carpenters and pursers.
The name of every boy who signs on for his first voyage at a United Kingdom port is now being sent to the College, and it is proposed, to invite each one to enter,
Founded late last year by Dr. Albert Mansbridge, the College of the
Sea is in its Arst term.
FAMOUS TUTORS
For students it will draw on the 6,500 ships of the British merchant marine "somewhere at sea," and for
its teachers on the voluntary service
"Because of the appent which the sea makes to British peoples," Dr. Manabridge sold, "we shall soon have tutor-advisers of the first rank in all The ports.
"The wealth of culture available to sallors will be without precedent."
Film Of British Air
Raid Defences
Striking glimpses of Britain's de
no.
May 4, 1939 Llery, Supreme Court
Claude G. Bowers, American Ambassador to Spain chats with newsmen following a conference with State Department officinis In Washington. He was called home recently to confor 'on ques- tions pertaining to the recognition of the Franco regime by the United States.
DANCER'S BLACK EYE
Judge Looks At It, Gives Her £40
MIS crash, was at Westminster County Court recently award-
ISS IRENE BARDEN, a cabaret artist, of Carlton Mansions, S.W., who received a black eye in a road
ed £40 damages.
She had claimed £100 from Ronald Hugh Charles Pearce, Sherwood Way, West Wickham, Kent, and Taxi- Cabs (London), Ltd., Goldhawk Road, Shepherds Bush. fences against air attacic are given in
The Warning," a
new short li Miss Barden was a passenger in a taxi involved in a collision which was recently shown at the with Mr. Pearce's car in Park Lane last November. Regal Cinema, Marble Arch.
and the
and fighting fres
Dunns
After looking. ut Miss Barden's eye, the judge asked: "Are you Innocent of make-up?"
De Havilland's
First Jump
MB Geoffrey de Havilland,
¦chief lest pilot of the de Haviland Air-craft Company, of Hatfield, and Mr. John Cunning- ham, another test pilot, escaped by parachute before an airplane which they wero tealing crashed at Wheathampstead. Herts, . re- cently.
The aircraft was Д two-seater
not been tested before.
monoplane of a new type which had
A friend of Mr. de Havilland said: that when the aircraft got into dimculties Mr. Cunningham and Mr. de Havilland discussed whether they should leap or not. Mr. Cunningham jumped at 3,000ft and Mr. de Havilland soon afterwards,
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Judge cuse aircraft guns, ashore and afloat, in asked: "Do cabaret artists perform
Miss Darden: Well, I powder, of action,
A... during the daytime, or do they come complex
course. organisation reporting raids and the out only after dark?" extent of damage, caring for wounded Barden): My experience is that they the result of a bruise. Is that black ground. It hit
Judge:
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"The producers, British National] Flims, have undertaken that any pro- Ats arising from its distribution in Britain by the Assoclated Brilish Picture Corporation shall go to Ser vice charities it is also to be shown at the World Fair in New York,
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LANDED A MILE APART The two men landed in fields about mile aport.
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"THURST FOR KNOWLEDGE While Miss Barden was being cross-i the heading of "very nice work if about cabaret artists. Do they after had lunch. Mr. de Havilland was in
Judge: All of which comes undermined, the judge commented, "Ia
am thirsting for more information you can get_i1."
the performance have to come on the the air again in another aircraft Miss Barden added that she was floor and dance with customers?
nursing home for ten days.
within an hour and a half. Mr. E. Ryder Richardson (for Mr.
Geoffrey de Havilland, son of Pearce): No, if they did there would Captain Geoffrey de Havilland, the W be no reason for the places closing airplane engine designer, is 20 years down.
old. He has had a number of es Mr. Hogg: Mr. Richardson knows capes while testing alteraft, more about them than I do.
Mr. Peter Francis Stern, a passen-an air liner when the fuselage broke in August last year he was piloting ger in the taxi, said that the force of after the collision swung him off his seat machine tilted in the air and the tail The nose of the on to Miss Darden's lap. After the fell to the ground. Mr. de Havilland accident they all went to a chemist's, was not hurt. and then had a drink.
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Mr. Hogg said that Miss Barden alleged that after the accident she) was so disfigured that she had to be put in the second row of the cabaret.
Judge Dumas: I should have thought the cabaret might have pre- | ferred a less Black-Eyed Susan,
a
landing.
A few weeks before he had to land another air liner on the wings, the retractable - undercarriage jammed in the "up" position.
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Beggar Hides Clothes
Awarding Miss Borden £40 dom- ages (£20 special damages and £20 general damages) with costs against
San Francisco. both defendants, Judge Dumas said: was found to possess secret lodgings, Thomas Welch, 36, ragged beggar, "Judging by modern standards, the where $500 was cached, $125 on his may be considered highly at-person and a very sumptuous ward- tractive although artificial."
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Defence Move
RADIO programmes by telephone will be made available by the
Government shortly.
The purpose is national defence security.
Major Tryon, the Postmaster-General, announced recently that the Government had decided to develop the broadcasting service both by relay companies and by P. O. service on tele- phone linee connected to receiving sets.
The P.O. telephone-radio service will give a choice of three programmes, including National and Regional, by pressing a button at the side of the telephone.
A subscriber will be able to uso his telephone simultaneous- ly with the reception of radio programmes."
It is hoped to start the service this year in a few districts and extend it later.
START THIS YEAR
Although it is intended to continue Mojor Tryon fold the House of radio broadcasting in event of war, Commons that relay services were required in limes of emergency to the ordinary radio services would be transmit any special announcement liable to Interference or Interrup- ordered by the forat A.R.P. or police tion from which the wired service Buthorities..
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