Duke Of Kent's Tour In West Yorks
MRS. MARY SUTTON, wearing mud-caked wellingtons, an old felt hat and a drab coat, mat the Duke of Kont touring worklass mon's smallholdings at Snaith, West Yorks, recently. He asked her how she liked the life. And she drow up her short figure and answered: at all."
"Not
Embarrassed, fingering the lapel of his jacket, the
AIRMEN FOR Duke turned to buxom Mrs.
THE NAVY
Edna Purdy, a neighbour.
She blushed, and stammered: "There is nothing but hard work
Of the air stations taken over re and poverty here. We can stand cently by the Navy from the Alr Force, the chief is that at Lee-on-the hard work, but not the the-Solent, where Press representa-poverty. tives were entertained. Lee is the
"We are leaving."
headquarters of Rear-Admiral Bell Her husband, Robert Purdy, wear-11 Davies, V.C., who is in general cem-ing open-necked shirt and corduroyk, mund of all the naval air stations.thanged the subject. He shook It Is oho the manning depot for all hands with the Duke, told him he specialist ratings of the Fleet Arad been to Australia, and wished Arm-pilots, observers, air gunners. the Duke happiness there in his post. air artificers, air Atters, and riggers as Governor-General. ~~to which they return between The Duke passed un. nerlods of service afloat, abroad, or at other shore air sinilons, and from which their administration und draft Ing are carried out. It houses No. 2 Observers' School-No, 1 Is at Ford, Sussex and two squadrons, Nos, 753
Mrs. Sutton, aged
thirty-nine,
whose husband took a smallholding under the Land Settlement Associa- on after losing his Job as a fitter, sold:
"I didn't want to bother the Duke,
'IT WON'T PAY'
and 754, of lundplanes, amphibians, but when he asked me I had to tell and fealplanes, which are employed him or burst. on training It also provides accom- modation when required for various squadrons aircraft belonging Lu "It's not the work on the land we aircraft-carriers. battleships, and crumble at but things like this:- cruisers-chiefly when the ships are; under refit or in harbour for any sub- stantial period.
The observers' school is working at high pressure. Some years ago the normal number of observers under training rarely exceeded 10: to-day,
Friday,
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July 14, 1939.
A picture evidencing the progress of the Queen Elizabeth in the fitting-out basin at Messrs. John Brown's Clydebank yard, where she is being prepared for ses. The Queen Elisabeth will make her maiden Voyage sometime in 1940, hud she is fully expected to better the fast limes of her alster ship as a number of recent Improvements in design have been incorporated. As in the Queen Mary, the main machinery will be geared rteam turbines developing a service home power of 168,000 and driving four propellers, but she will have only two funnels as against the three of the Queen Mary.
A.R.P. Is Blamed
Crime Increase
CRIME has increased in Manchester because A.RP
work takes up too much of the police force's time, "We sold $201, of spring cal according to Mr. John Maxwell, the Chief Constable.
bage, the other week, We got Ga. for them, with 4d. off for the ernte and 1. 4d. for the association,
In his report for 1938, issued recently, Mr. Maxwell
For Big
Honours List
Of Royal Tour
Honours conferred by the
World were announced in the
King during his tour of the New
"That meant we sold the cab states: "It has not always been possible to maintain the "London Gazette" recently.
bages at 13lb, a periny. We can't full strength of the erime-prevention branch of the police
make it pay." Mrs. Purdy, who is fvenly-eight service.
in order to make provision for the said: "Last month we had 31a, 4d. great increase in the Fleet Air ArmĮta draw for my husband, myself, and' "The call upon the police to provide personnel for other essen- which is in progress, there are 140, two children. of whom 50 are at Lee. There are] "Now my husband has to work tial services, has been heavy-notably for work in connection with various categories of oficers among three days a week as a farm labourer, Air Raid Precautions. them; naval officers on the ordinary leaving me to struggle with the small- lists, spreializing in air work, sub-holding. It is either that or going Heutenants and midshipmen of the on relief."
new {A} Branch, who serve in the] Mrs. Purdy and Mrs. Sutton both Navy for seven years, and midship-sold they might stay if they, had nien of
the Air Branch of the grown-up sons to help. R.N.V.R., who de 18 months' continu-
'GLAD TO WORK ous training and then return to civil
Mr. G. T. Nicholson, chief clerk of life, forming the Fleet Air Arm's re-the Land Settlement Association at surve. These young men on entry do Snaith, said: "Most of the thirty- a month's preliminary naval trairing five settlers are happy and conten- in one of the cruisers in the Reserveled, earning between £10 and £12 Fleet, learning what naval discipline month.
and life on board ship are like; they "A selfler has a three-bedroomed then do courses in the tactical, sinal, coltage for 7s. Od. a week while train-
"To this diversion of the personnel I attribute in no small degree the increase in the number of indictable crimes of a more serious nature.
Sir Roger Keyes Says: "Meet Japanese Bluff"
known at the time that they
Some had already been made
were conferred.
C.H..
of
Lord Tweedsmuir, G.C.M.G.. Governor General Canada. has been appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order from June 15.
The following promotion In, and other appointments to, the Order are contained in the list. The dates, are those on which the honours were con- ferred.
KNIGHTS COMMANDERS Vice-Adml. George Frederick Basset Edward Collins, C.B., C.V.O.: June 17. Commander the Empress of Australia's escort on Royal voyage to Canada, aged 55.
ADMIRAL OF THE Fleet Sir Roger Keyes told an Mr. Arthur Shuldham Hedfera: June
and Runnery schools before joining, greenhouse, a piggery, 150 hend audience of 3,000 A.R.P. workers at Hornsey, N., recently.
the observers' school.
.
INTENSIVE TRAINING
of poultry, and live acres.
"After Afteen months' training he
¡ls invited to become a tenant if he)
"Events at Tientsin, with the support given to the Their training has to be intensive is suited to the work. Then he pays Japanese by. Germany and Italy, really amount to a de- in order to be completed in the time. a mouth for his home and hold-claration of war against the British Empire, and it is a standard in navigation, and few of "Nearly all of them are glad to be challenge which must be met." them had any knowledge of that ari back at work after five or six years' before they joined up a few months idleness.
avaliable. They must reach high
control, when they
never seeN
15. Secretary to Lord Tweed- smuir.
COMMANDERS
Capt. Cyril George Buckhill Coltart. R.N.; June 17. Commander of escorting cruiser Glasgow,
M
Godfrey Digby Napler Haggard, C.M.G.. O.B.E., June D. Consul- General, New York.
RN.; June 17. Former Deputy- Director, Naval Ordnance, Admir-
liy.
Lt. Col. Erie Dighton Mackenzie, C.M.G., D.S.O.; June 15. Comp- troller to Lord Tweedsmuir.
Mr. Victor Alexander Louls Mallet. C.M.G.; June 9. Charge d'Affaires, Washington.
He said he was convinced that if we were firm and showed Capt. Francis William Hugh_Jeans, "The day Mr. Sutton got 5s, for the whole work that Great Britain was ready to enter the ago: they must be proficient in 2016. of spring cabbage may have struggle, making full use of her wealth, her industry, and her a gun fired at sea or the splash of been a day when the market was man-power, we could win this war without the elash of arms.
Rutted. When that happens the a projectile; they must be able to send and receive Marse at not less total pro is split equally among the
"IC we hesitate, humiliation is and I can assure you that they are than 20 words minute: they musi nettlers. It seems the fairest way." certain lo follow, and war will be satisfactory." know of naval signals, the tactics of
(almost inevitable," he added. [Sir Mr. Anthony Eden, at Birmingham: ships and the formations of fleets.
Roger, who served for some years "Faced as we are with the ruthless- There was no mistaking the enthu
on the China station in command of ness and lawlessness of the modern Liasm.of the young.officers at Lee.!
_destroyer, won promotion for the world, the strength of our national despite the Intensity of their work.
capture of four Chinese destroyers at service may be the determining-factor Taku in 1900.3
In the preservation of peace."
Field Marshal Lord Milne, at Chel "NO STARVATION"
sea: would like to see Territorin Here ure points from other recent headquarters become the centres of a speeches:
great movement where our youth willį. be able to assemble as in a club. ACol. Richard Valentine Read, D.S.O., benevolent Government might provide
M.C.; June 9 Military Attache. Paymaster Capt. Lewis Anselm
Washington.
The station is dual. There is thei slip-way running down to the Solent with the seaplane sheds behind it;
California Ends Poker Bluff
SACRAMENTO, Cal. Efforts of California poker players and on the landward side of them to elevate the status of the game Is the aerodrome. The former oper-jhave falled. The supreme court has ates the Senfox floatplanes and the ruled that draw poker, even under
Walrus amphibians; the latter the/ the gulse of a "game of skill," is stilster of Agriculture, at Rochford: gmnasio, baths, and even squash
legal.
Walruses and also the Shark three-leg seater landplanes. Besides the train-
Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, Min- "There will be no starvation in time courts anything, in fact, that they of war. Agriculture has a vital part can possibly do to bring the youth
All-Electric Church: Gramophone and Radio
ing of observers, that of pilots in sea-stray Miles Hawk civilian machine to play. It will play it, and plans of the country together to train them planes and in night flying is also cur-dropped in to pay a call; and an have been made. I have scen. them in the duties of citizenship."
trained Anson from a neighbouring R.A.F. rled on. Rating plots are here in the later stages of their train-| ŝtation was to be seen waiting its-- ing carece
orders to be off about Is business. A squadron of Skun dive-bombers. Nothing could be more inspiriting disembarked from the fleet, was than the air of enthusiastic activity standing on the aerodrome when the which pervaded the whole establish- Press party arrived, Soon after-ment, wards they toolt off and gave an ex- The buildings and accommodation hibition of their powers, making are of the usual standard of Royal dummy dive-bombinj; and low bomb- Air Force stations, and the comfort ing attacks. The whole time Wal- of both officers and men is well pro-: ruses, Sharks, and Scafoxes were inkvided for. Since Lee in the future is ing off and landing, in the course of to be chiefly devoted to training, and their ordinary day's work; machines will have large number of young of the R.A.F. Communications Flight, ratings always there, special facilities temporarily nccommodated in the for recreation are to be provided in station, were coming to and fro; the ntur future.
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, Walton, Aylesbury, is to be con- verted into an all-electric church, the only one in the country. "We are replacing our present three bells, two of which are cracked, with eight electrically operated tubular bells," said the Vicar, the Rev. Brian Hession.
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"They will have a range of dve miles, and it will be possible to play hymn tunes and other melodies.
"For instance when there is n wed-1 ding the bride can enter the church to the chimes of the Bridal March' and leave to the 'Wedding March."
"By теаля of an electrically- operated gramophone in the church we can press a button und scléct appropriate music for the service.”
The bells can be controlled by n
switch in Mr. Hession's study at the
| vicarage 50 yards away.
The church is also to be equipped with an electric clock.
"Next month," said Mr. Hession, "the church will be open every morn- ing and the morning broadcast ser- vice will be radiated there."
Missouri Pacific Buys Rails
ST. LOUIS. The Missouri Pacifle system has ordered approximately $1,500,000 worth of rails for improvement of its ''traclingy' this year. The order called for 31.110 tons of rails, 2,250 tons to be used on the Gulf Coast Line, and the rest by the. Missouri, Pacific'rall- rond
Surgeon-Capt. Joseph-Archibald Max- well, Q.B.E., M.D., B.Ch., F.R.C.S., R.N., June 22, of H.M.S. Repulse, transferred for the tour.
Archibald Robert Me.klr. IL.N.R. (retd.); May 16. Comman- der of the Empress of Australia,
Capt.
da
Costa Ricel, R.N.; June 22; paymas- ter in the Royal yacht, transferred for the tour.
Cupt. Charles Howard Sapsworth; June 22; commander of the Empresa of Britain, in which return voyage was made.
Capt. Charles Maxwell Richard Schwerdt, R.N. (retd); June 17; private secretary to Sir Hugh Walwyn, Governor of Newfound- - land.
MEMBERS OF FOURTH CLASS Mr. Erie Arthur Cleugh; June 9.
Consul, New York. Lt.-Cmdr. Peter Dawnay, R.N.; June
22; a member of the Royal party. Mr. Benjamin William Alan Plunket;
June 0. Mr. John Campbell Thomson, M.B.E.;
June D.
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