Saturday,
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June 10,- 1939.
U.S. NAZIS KIDNAP HOLLYWOOD PUBLISHER IN OWN CAR
Death Threat To Author Of Book
AR. GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM, FAMOUS AMERICAN
IN A VACANT HOUSE AT BAKERSFIELD, 100 MILES NORTH OF HOLLYWOOD, RECENTLY.
He told the police that he had been kidnapped from his Hollywood home by two men who demanded to know the author of the book he published-The Man Who Killed Hitler!"
Mr. Putnam, widower of the American airwoman, Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying the Pacific Ocean in 1937, recently announced that he had received a letter threatening him with death unless he ceased publishing the book. It claims that Hitler was killed on the eve of the Munich Conference, and that he has since been impersonated by'n "double."
Mr. Putnam was found when
people heard cries for help;
coming from
house.
apartly built Fritz's Ring
BOUND WITH TAPE
His arms and legs
were
tightly
bound with tape from a motor-car
tyre, and a gog made of similar tape
Returns
was hanging loose round his mouth. FRITZ ALLONGE, 26-years-
It had worked free.
old German, received a letter
Mr. Putnam said the men attacked at his home in Nice containing him as he went to his garage, ine
lung him into his own car and drove an engagement ring.
him off in It.
"Hitler
author
It was from 10-years-old
Joan
Mr. Putnam them who was the book. They said. If they ever found out who wrote it he'd be marked for death.
a long arm." the leader of the pair said.
"I told them: You'd better be looking after your own skin. We give kidnappers the electric chair in this country."
said: "I didn't tell Valentine Thomas, with whom he
three of the cloped to Paris
weeks BRO, breaking off their engagement.
"I am sorry I do not love you any "Since our Joan wrote. Jonzer love is dead It is better that we do not see each other again."
Fritz, ulnost in tears; said later:" "It seems that everything is over? between us. I am very unhappy,
"We made a mistake when we re-
"He retorted: We're not worried turned to Nice after her parents about your electric chair. You'd promised forgiveness. I should have better keep out of things that are clung to my sweethear! when
her with me la Paris," none of your business!"
HOUSE GUARDED
"When leaving me le repented the warning-Be careful what you pub-)
had
Earlier Allonge heard that Miss:
South
had Thomas.
African,
changed her mind. about marriage.
Later he was found semi-conscious
fish that is hostile to the Greater in his hotel. A doctor said he had Germany of the Fuhrer: that's all taken a heavy
I've got to tell you now.
hope you're intelligent enough
to accept a warning, because next time we won't be so easy with you.'
draught.
dose of sleeping-
muscular pair, fairly heavy-around
San Fernando Valley police are 1001b. I'd say. I never got a good now guarding the Putnam house. look at them.
His friends said they would Insist identify on his protecting himself
arined bodyguard,
with un voices."
I'd be unuble to
them except by their
It was reported from Los Angeles
"I have not the least idea of the yesterday that Mr. Putnam was to identity of the kidnappers," Mr. Put-marry Mrs. Jean-Marie Consigny num said. "I know they're a stout. James.
'Skies Are Overcast But Don't Lose Heart'
THE King made what was easily the best broadcast of his reign, when he addressed the Empire from Winnipeg, Canada Despite atmospherics and fading every word came through.
recently.
He diction was deliberate and under perfect control.
The speed of the speech was fluent
yet sufficiently slow to
sult every
one in the vast audience listening to him.
Reception was
at Arst a little
20,000 BEES
HIT LONDON
woolly-but two minutes after he had A SWARM of bees, estimated
since
started, it cleared up. Elizabeth Princess
heard her father's broadcast on a radio set in her own room in Buckingham Palace. The King, speaking for eleven is Queen minutes, said: "To-day Victoria's birthday as well as Empire Day, an
and am glad that I speak to you amid surroundings eloquent of
Bchievements the Empire's
born. Queen Victoria was
"For a long period in history it was the mind of Europe which led progress in the world. "But that tide
inspiration is no longer running as it did in times gone
The Christian civilisation of Europe is now profoundly troubled and chal- lenged from within. "We are striving to standards, but the task is long and hard.
LOOKING FOR HOPE
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restore
its
"Asia, too, is changing fast, and its mind is deeply disturbed. Is not this a moment when the old world in its turn might look for hope and guidance to the achievements of the new?
...
t
The sense of race may be a dan- gerous-and-disruptive force, but the English and French have shown in Canada that they can keep the pride and distinctive culture which inspires, while yet combining to establish a broader freedom and security than either could have achieved alone.
would end with a special word of greeting to those of my Hsteners who are
are young "It is true and I deplore it
by an expert at 20,000, recently took possession of Church-row, Hampstead, Lon. don.
For a time the air was thick with them, but finally they settled on a bough of a pear tree overhanging a wall near the parish church. The bough was weighed down al- most to breaking point.
An expert sawed off the branch, located the queen, and put her in a box. The rest of the swarm followed at once,
The bees, which the expert said were glutted with honey, had escaped from a nearby hive.
Conjures In The Nude, Wins £5
CONJURING IN THE NUDE BELLO RICAS RECENTLY, SE
ONJURING IN THE NUDE BEFORE A NUDE AUDIENCE YEARS-OLD MAGICIAN TONY ALEXANDER WON £5 AT THE NATIONAL SUN AND AIR ASSOCIATION, SHOOT-UP HILL, N.W.
Sim-
Major-General E. K. mons, M.v.o., O.DE., M.C.. new Commanding Oficer of British Troops in Shanghal, paid an official call upon the Chairman of the Council, Mr. Cornell S. Franklin, recently. Top picture shows Major-General Simmons inspecting the guard of honour provided by the Russian Regi- ment, 5. V, C. At left the new O. C. poses with Mr. Frankiin.
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Sir Henry Gullett, Minister for External Affairs, in a review of the international situation in the House of Assembly recently, said that if Britain were plunged into war in C2784. pursuance of her present policy of defence against unprovoked aggros-c2802. sion Australia would make common cause with her.
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on the policy which Britain was following, and on the action to which it might lead.
As regards the Far East Sir Henry said Japan would be safer with her old ally, the British Empire, than tralla looked forward with {with her present associates.
confidence to an improvement in re- lations with Japan.
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In the course of the debate Sir Henry Gullett concurred with Mr. Curtin, Leader of the Socialist Op-DA1873-74. Mozart. Serenade In D Major. position, that Australia's obligations- |_From__all parts of Britain. towards the British Commonwealth quarters of the Association to matically followed Britain to war
however the war might be caused. shed their clothes,
JAMAICA Sceptically they murmured: "Con- the nude? It's hardly ATE CARNEY, 70-years-old Juring in
Then Pony Alexander musical-hall "coster-queen," possible."
as little and her hsuband, George Bar-started his performance clay, plan to build a £100.000 girls, middle-aged men, and women theatre in Tower Bridge-road, London.
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FIRE DESTROYS A SUGAR FACTORY
KINGSTON. crowded round to watch.
Fire destroyed the sugar factory From their necks he produced at Valo Royal in St. Ann recently.
figures. "There is to be a revolving stage, cards, from their hair, handkerchiefs. The losses are said to run to five To wind up his performance, he
"Sugar manufactured on the estate accommodation for 2,000 people, tele- vision apparatus, and a car park for made lighted elgarettes appear from has been saved. The remainder of the crop will be ground at a neigh- CO cars or more," Mr. Barefay, who thin air.
bouring factory," runs a variety agency, sald.
The nudists applauded their nude One worker was burned to death "On Sundays the theatre will be magician. It is a triumph for me," and two were badly injured.
"It means I win a £5 bet he said. We shall have music-hall shows; other magicians made me
that it NEW ZEALAND and musical drama, pantomime,
would be impossible to do all my comedy.
"The theatro is to be built on a site irickn in the nude." behind the Bricklayers Arms Hotel. The architect's plans are all ready, and we are just waiting for the: L.C.C. licence. Bullding should be gia in a fow weeks' tume.
"We're going to call it Tower though,"
tumed into a cinema.
NUDE TABLE TENNIS His pretty wife said: "I am not keen on the cult. It's all right to keep my hubby out of mischief,
CONCERN AT FALL IN BIRTH RATE
AUCKLAND. Replying to a deputation which expressed concern at the declining birth rate. In the Dominion, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. W.
Bridge Empire, and it ought to do Miss Murian Lill, secretary of the E. Parry, said: "We in New Zealand well because there are no music Nudist Association, said: "We have have a low death rate, and it is true halie within about three miles of bank clerks, big business men, doc-
volees."
seven,
years have dropped behind." "We have no backers," Mr. Bar-tors, lawyers, ull sorts ns nudist de-that the birth rate Ogures for several The position was not as it should clay said, "we shall find the money ourselves. Kate will appear in the Several tic girls not older than be, though the latest figures, showed shows, of course."
scampered about as a nude some improvement. It was vital to woman of 50 and a man about the the progress of the nation that the figures of births and marloges, be same age, ployed tobje-iennia.
he "It is our aim to create a friendly kept up to the highest standard. From any correspondence,"
that a and Informal atmosphero-a club
"I am able to say added. where any member is sure of meet-serious drawback to marriages in ing friends and a warm welcome." New Zealand has been a Incis of Mike Litt said:
Handbag that Plays
Mendelssohn
PARIS.
VISITORS to the mid-season show at one of the
most famous of Paris fashion houses heard' snatches of Mendelssohn, the "Blue Danube," and "Little Old Lady" as the mannequins paraded. There was no orchestra, no, down over the face like a mask- deeply that the skies are overcast radio. But musical boxes were some of them setually reached to the made. of chin. The brims were in more than one quarter at the hidden in the crown of hats transparent net, and served
as o present time. Do not on that ac- count lose heart Life is a great worn by the mannequins, in window.
Trimmings Included nuts, aril and every one of you their handbags-shaped like adventure,
ulating by concertinas or planos--and in chokes, grass, or pencils. can be a pioneer,
and service
: trial to the buckles of their evening TWO SKIRTS thought and better things. - "Hold-fast to all that is just, and
dreauce,
These are the latest creation of of good report in the heritage which your father left you, but strive also Schiaparelli, who is now presenting to improve and equalise that heritage her collection for all men and women in the years NET MASKS to coine,
A new type of sports outfit was
introduced with two pkirts. Ona was! an ordinary straight skiri, the other like an old-fashioned pair of bloomers, buttoning below the knee: And running through the entire collection was the music motif, with choker necklets representing entire buttons in the form of musical in-- Other hals had wide brims pulled i struments...
With some of the afternoon dresses ****Iemember, too, that the key to were worn hats, with high wicker "all true progress lies in faith, hope work crowns, like bird-cages, and in
and love. May God-give you their each cage was a blue-bird with out bars of music and pin lapels and support, and may God help them to stretched wings. prevally? I
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houses That is a serious state of affairs and was viewed as such by the Government, when it set out on
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