NANCY
NANCY--I WANT TO COMPLIMENT YOU ON YOUR NEW
SAFETY CAMPAIGN!
OH, THANKS, JUDGE--- IT'S WORKIN' VERY
WELL!
Thursday,
ANY KID WHO CROSSES STREETS WITHOUT FIRST
LOOKIN' UP AND DOWN GETS PUT IN JAIL FOR TWO
HOURS!
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
--BY THE WAY--YOU! JUST CROSSED THE STREET WITHOUT
LOOKIN'
YOURSELF!
October 2, 1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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POLES 70-TON GOLD STORE SAVED
FROM J. SZAPIRO
PARIS.
AFTER a hazardous 6,000 miles-long journey by lorry,
rail and boat, 70 tons of Polish gold have arrived safely in Paris by way of Rumania, Turkey, Syria and the Mediterranean.
The gold was in the Warsaw vaults of the Bank of Poland when the evacuation of thei capital was ordered at the end of the war's first week.
The energy and the determination | former of Colunel Matuszewski, Finance Minister, saved the £20- 000,000 worth of treasure,
He commandeered at the utmost speed a feet of lorries-lorries used for carrying all sorts of goods, disguise their contents.
Race With Time
to
HITLER HIT
By Woman's New Play
WASHINGTON.
The caravan folted and bumped its WASHINGTON roured with
way to the Rumanian frontier.
laughter to-day over the new play, "Margin for Error," On the very verge of safety it was by Clare Boothe, author of "The unsuccessfully bombed by German Women," which puts Hitlerian aeroplanes.
on the spot and is as blistering In Rumunia the precious load was and pungent a blast against transferred to a specially chartered train, and taken to Constanza, on the Nazism as ever came from a Black Sea, where a Turkish boat was dramatist's pen. walling.
The play, which was presented last It was a race against time, for the Germans knew already that the gold night. provoked hisses whenever the had left Poland,
Nazi leader was mentioned.
with its treasure.
At one
And a few hours after the boat point the show was. slopped as the and sailed the Rumanian Government re-audience stamped their feet celved a warning from Berlin that the gold must under no circumstances elapped, drowning the words of the Consul, be allowed to leave Rumanian terri-tetor playing the German
villain Karl Baumer,
and central The little boat cruised for over afgure in the play. week in the Eastern Mediterranean Baumer is such K consummate villain that everyone-including the Then I was arranged with the entire audience wants to see him French Goverranent that the gold destroyed. should be unloaded in Syria and then transported to France by the French The first act is laid in the office of -Navy
the Nazi consul of a large American It was of the utmost importance city, and the author takes the oppur
what she for all the Allies that the bullion tunity of saying bluntly should not come into the possessten, thinks of the lunatic JuggernauL” of the gold-hungry Nazis. It is now who now mennees the world. absolutely safe.
The consut dies a violent death-to The new Polish Government has made it clear that not an ounce of the cheers of the audience. Miss will be spent for Government needs, Boothe presents Hiller as the arch- It will form the reserve for the enemy of Amerlen, and, judging by audience agreed restored Polish Currency in recen- the applause, the
i with her. stitused Poland.
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