2 MEN ROW 50 MILES TO ENGLAND
Refugees In Open Boat Rescued
TWO REFUGEES ONE FROM BERLIN AND ONE FROM VIENNA-SPENT ONE NIGHT RECENTLY IN DEAL (KENT) POLICE STATION AFTER THEY HAD ROWED FIFTY MILES IN A 10FT. DINGHY FROM OSTEND TO THE ENGLISH COAST.
They were saved by lifeboat when their boat-which they bought for £3-capsized near the Goodwin Sands.
Everything belonging to 20-years-old Walter Altmann, af Vienna, and 18-years-old Gunter Mann, went to the bottom of the Channel and to-day they will be sent to a crimp while the Home Office make inquiries.
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Driven from five countries, dashed after them, flung lifelines and they went to Ontend, bought lebells, and hauled them, half their boat, and sailed, determin-drowned, on board
A CLOSE SHAVE "We kept them warm in the en- The Walmer lifeboat answered angine-room and fastened their boat SOS message from South Goodwin lantern. On the way in we applied Lightship and went to the boat, artificial respiration and got a lot of which was drifting.
water mut of each of thein.
ed to reach England.
COX'S 'STORY
"In all my years of lifehont work
I have never known it to be such a Sixty-years-old Joe Mercer, coxtelose shave. In another minule or wain of the boat, told the Sunday two they would
have been
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Tuesday,
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Doctors Condemn Mental Services
WIDESPREAD reforms in the treatment of mental "We saw the dinghy Lansing in e had travelled from Switzer-disorders are urged in the Feversham report on the broken water, and I expected it to land to ser our parent in Brussels," voluntary mental health services, issued recently.
"and the rescued men said, disappear before we got to her.
"The two men could do nothing, told in return to Germany. We de- not even steer and what I thought jetded, to make a dash for England was going to happen did happen. Innd bought our bont-but now we "She struck some wreckage and have lost everything, money, clothes, both men were fung into the water. bays and gear. We never thought we They were carried reway, but we would get to England allve."
Bishop Plays "Pack Up You Troubles
On Barrel Organ
CHESTER.
DR. G. R. FISHER, Bishop of Chester and Bishop-Designate of London, recently fulfilled his promise to play a barrel organ ir, the streets of Chester.
His performance, which was in aid of Chester Royal In- firmary extensions appeal fund, raised £29 10s.
The chairman of the Infirmary If, when he reported in London, he Board of Management, who introduce was met with the remark "You are
included The committee, which famous doctors, rat for three years under the presidency of the Earl of Feversham: Its Andings occupy 260 | pages.
The report says that at the end of 1930. 155,000 persons were nolified disorder. as under care for mental "This," it adds, "represents only a fraction of the total eases.
the
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The committee, urging ordination of voluntary services, say the evidence "justifies the verdict that these services lack cohesion to such an extent that they do not give full value for the money, time, and effort spent upon them."
OVERCROWDED
Widow of
Rich Men Sues 3rd Husband
MRS. SARAH BURKE, aged 36, of Woodville, Nenagh, Commenting on oul-patient treat-County Tipperary, who was said
ment the commitice state that "Sonte
"Svier meet only once D
--August 30, 1939, mary, Supreme Court
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"Good-bye, Jim; have good trip," said President Roosevelt,
Postmaster General Farley left him st Hyde Park for trip to Po- land. "Good-byo, Boss," said Mr. Farley, squelching reports of rift between two old friends.
New Era In The Schools
THE British Board of Education
circular hus fcsued
which * considers may well mark the be- dinning of a new era in secondary education."
Special attention a given to in- proving the value of sixth form work to pupils who slay on until they are 17, fer the sake of broadening their education, but do not intend to sit for the Higher School Certificate.
The Beard suggests for them a one-year course, with further study of the normal school subjects, physi- eat training, and a number of special subjects, including rural work
(in
of the clinics do not even provide the to have married the nephew of rudiments of an enleient service. a peer, then a wealthy farmer, rountry schouls), commercial sub- Jects, music, art, metalwork, wood- month, recently sued her third husband, work, nursing and domestic training. some are so overcrowded that india farm labourer, for main- vidual attention is impossible; others
One of the advantages of such a tenance.
course would be its preparation for are either under-staffed or served by
She said in Nénugh District Court, the proper use of leisure, inadequately trained personnel."
An explanatory statement accom- Regarding
treatment that she married John Burke in 1937 in-patient
the circular points out that band, a gentleman farmer named
convince employers that a boy or Birt who had spent this extra year n school would be a more valuable em- ployee than one leaving at 10.
ed the Bishop, said they had not got only a part of the man we appoint- they declare that the lack of proper/after the death of her second hus-pany, be the task of the school to
exactly all of the Bishop with them.ed, he would be able to prove that He had been a patient in the in-he was all there for he had the car-
they had removed firmary and
Une in a lille jar. 501ali piece of him—a cartilage. When he was appointed to the He then seized the handle of the Bishoprie of London he was a com-harral organ and played two tunes. plete bison; now he was a bishop "Sling Thro" and "Puck Up Your less a cartilage,
Troubles."
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accommodation is a matter of grave Dwyer, by whom she had four chil- Importance.
An increase in juvenile delin- Her first husband, Mr. Cletworthy quency is parily blamed en lack of social security and stackness of home Rowley, nephew of Lord Langford, whom she married when she was 18, discipline since the war.
and also died,
Judge Flood: Are you an ordinary
girl7--Yes. "You must
"DULL CHILDREN"
USE OF LOCAL FACILITIES It is proposed that small schools, where facilities do not exist for ad-
The commitee do not know why country have been an attractive | vanced education, should transfer ex- type when you married a peer's ceptional pupils at the age of 10 to schools more adequately staffed und nephew," he said.
equipped.
there has been an increase in mental dullness. They estimate that about 105,000 children are mentally detec- tive, of whom 35,000 are "education-
Mrs. Burke sald neither of her ally retarded" only. In addition, first husbands left her any money. there la a group of dull and back-She lost her widow's pension when ward children, numbering, with the she married Burke, 35,000
"retarded children," about 300,000.
The committee's recommendations include the setting up of child guid- once elinles and the formation of National Council from the voluntary mental health organisations.
She alleged that after 10 months Burke deserted her and failed to support her and her four children.
Burke said he was earning 12s. week, plus board. He did not want to return to his wife.
The case was adjourned.
Hunted Boar With Bow and Arrow
England's most notable archer for each requiring a 40lb. pull.
Mrs. Mole told something of many years, Mr. A. II. Mole, an ex-j
ten planter in India, has gone to husband's prowess. Oslo to compete in the ninety-second Grand National Archery meeting.
Special arrangements for transport, and in some cases boarding, would
be necessary.
In the main stage of secondary education, before the School Certi- fleate, the Board considers that pupils should continue to learn English, one foreign language and mathematics, although they need not now offer t for examination. A pamphlet
will to be issued shortly
suggest means of using this new freedom to widen the curriculum.
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that the in- The Board suggests struction and general life of the school should be more closely related to local opportunities.
In rural districts geography could include local surveys, selence could cover agricultural chemistry or plant blology, and practical and animal her work could take the form of garden- Ing. Similar experiments could be commercial industrin or
"He uses Swedish steel bows," she made in
centres. said, "and not the od yew bow.
In archery circles Mr. Mole's per- "It is rather remarkable that my formances are regarded as being husband should be the nest archer little
in England, because he was wounded ttle less than miracles.
Recently at Oxford he scored 1,234 in the right hand during the war and points in a Double York Round has to shoot left-handed,
in
Mallard Duck Is Pet
SPOKANE, Wash. (UP). Mias Iurd duck named Jeep that follows The duck was While ni- his given to her last Easter.
He began to take up archery only Mary Louise Calkins has a pet Mal-
only 17 below the score put up 1859 by Maurice Ford. England's most ve seemed to take to it naturally her abdul like a dog
ago.
famous archer since the legendary days of Robin Hood. Hitherto
no and has never had a lesson in
one had approached Ford's record by life. He has gone out hunting in tending Whitman College at Walla 200 points.
India with only a bow and arrow and Watla this spring, the duck trailed In shooting a Double York Round has begged such animals as a 2721b. behind her as the
campus after classes. Mr. Mole had to shoot 144 arrows, wild boar."
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