Wednesday,
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November 22, 1939.
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Hollywood Economy
ALARMED by probable heavy tomes in markois outside the United States, Hollywood is likely to cut down its film produciton budget at once by 25 per cent. At least 20 pletares due, to start this month have been postponed indefinitely. Among them is Charlie Chaplin's: "The Dictator,” in which Chaplin was to bave satirised Hitler.
The Relish Empire provides 30 per cent. of Hollywood's revenue --about £10,000,000 a year, ·Some 500 feature films now planned are likely to be reduced to 400 at the most,
Courageous Orphans
Start Now Lifo
You Must Be Proud Of Your Father
PLYMOUTH.-Four chil- dren of one of the men who died in the aircraft carrier Courageous have had to go into a Dr. Barnardo's home because their mother can no
longer afford to keep them. How The Navy
The children-two sets of blond boy twins aged three and six-were admitted to the Ply- mouth branch of the home after their mother explained that their
Fights
The U-Boats
father, Chief Stoker Petty Officer JERE are pictures that bring William Joseph Jones, had been | F1 "vividly to the eye the Navy's "killed by a German submarine."eenseless watch which is bringing The boys were told that they, the U-bont menace to an end. should be proud of their father und not forget him. Their mother kissed them and then signed papers rendering them;
They were taken abourd a sur-destroyer on escort duty.
She has been told that her pension will be £2 48. a week. She has eight children. The two eldest boys, aged fourteen and Afteen, have just Hot Jobs
he as errand boys and daughter, aged twenty, was married a fortnight ago. There u buby aged eleven months.
1s
Bills Paid Representatives of the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust called on Mrs. Jones, and she told them that on her reduced money she could no longer afford to keep the twins.
She was told that the trust would pay her out- standing bills of £2 10s. for the doctor and the electric light account. Then the children were taken away.
The two elder boys, Alun and In another Peter, were asleep but ward the smaller twins. Robert and David, were awalte. They cannot · yet grasp that their father has been killed in the war.
Mrs. Jones said: "It was a wrench
on
to let them go, but I had to. My husband sold good-bye to them the Friday before we heard he was this dead. I had "a telegram, then Jetter from the Admiralty."
The Jetter was printed, with Banks filled in in ink. It was dated September 27, and said:"Madam,
I regret to have to inform you thut in consequence of the death of your husband, Willium J. Jones, the Navy Allotment and Marriage Allowance In courǝc. of payment_to_you_eenses with the instalment due un Septem- ber 14,
issue.
"An allowance equal to the rate of the marriage allowance in together with an allotment at
the
stipulated qualifying rate for mar- ringe allowance, which in your case 13 218, a week, will be paid for a
of period
thirteen
after weeks notification of death.
"The total allowance of 50s, a week payable in this respect will cease, therefore, with the payment due on December 14. Any over-payment occurring on the 21st or 28th Septem-j ber will be adjusted by reducing the payments made subsequently.
"I have recordingly to request that you will return to this dopurtinent The Navy Order Book(s) in your posseraton in the enclosed envelope in order that the necessary alteration may be made. I an, Madam, Your Obedient Servant, Director of Navy Accounts,"
Chlef Stoker Petty
Officer Jones
was due to retire from the Navy In February. "We were hoping things. would be easier then," said Mrs. Jones. He would have had his pen- sion then, and could have joined the Navy again. He had five medals,
You see the oficer of the watch scanning the sea for any sign of a submarine's periscape, making sure at the same time that his ships keeps its position,,
You see, the navigation officer įtaking a bearing.
And you see also, in the picture belowe, how the crew relax in of- duty moments--with a smile and
□ us.
£1,000
O.D. Gallagher, London's Star War Reporter, Says-
WEST OF
THE WAR (MAGINOT) PROVES DIFFICULT TO FIND
SHORT
By O. D. GALLAGHER
With the R.A.F., Somewhere in France.
you remember my telling you yesterday
De remember but here were short of
smokes? Well, they're short of films, too.
The No. 1 pudre went to work, and got to- gether a small travelling projector and screens, and arranged halls, everything. He wrote to dis- tributors in London, asked the rent of films.
Price was high, but money was produced. Then the distributors worked things out, found that the Army Post Office would need about five or six days to send films out here, and the same timo to send them back.
And the film distributors said: "Nix. Not worth it. Sorry."
So the R.A.F, can't go to the pictures. They could, of course, go to the war, but anywhere west of the Maginot Line this war is the most difficult thing in the world to find. I have been through country that still wears the scars of the last one, and what is there to be 'seen?
MAGINOT GUNS CAN HIT TANK AT 3 MILES
I
Hardly anything you wouldn't.. have found in prace time, except for the numbers of men, In the uniforms of the armles and air forces of Britain and France.
More War In King's Lynn
In fact, there are fewer signs of war life in places I've seen here than in, say, King's Lynn.
If you could suddenly dump some of theso French villagers in London or Manchester they would be startled
by the war preparations which are part of your everyday life
Almost the only precaution you share with these near-front-line villagers is
And the black-out. carlier closing. Such is the influence of the RAF, in one village, that astonished cafe proprietors have to open and close av Iz they were under D.O.R.A
Here's one reason why it's hard to find this war. Everybody is out to beat enemy agents. They are help- ing to blow up a log as thick as a pea-souper,
Invisible R.A.F.
i was taken along to-day with sONID colleagues to see one of the many R.A.F. stations that are scatteresi ail over France. The place we saw covers several hundred acres of ground, yet it is completely hidden.
It's the biggest, most remarkable job of camouflaging I've ever seen. Why, you could take a photograph of this bomber station and send it to Nazi air boss Goering and he would see no more than stretch of French countryside with the marks of autumn on it,
Close up I saw some of our best bombers.so well hidden that when IN THE MAGINOT LINE.
jone was started up and the pro- HAD sucking pig for lunch to-day, ninety-peller few round, some one salt: nine feet underground in a fortress on the "Look at that tree warming up!"
There are roads of steel grating
off
Maginot Line. Yesterday at nightfall I watched right across the airfield. They are poilus cating bread spread with garlic sausage as runways that can never get bogged rain and soft red mud sprinkled me in one of the when winter rains come. The un- first outposts of Gamelinland-the German ter-seen bombers will be able to take ritory these men have captured for France.
in any weather. But even these steel roads are invisible from the It was warm in the concrete corridor and the air. rooma of the Maginot Line. There was a com-The-airfield's--radio – station --is- fortable smell of pine disinfectant, and steam Invisible, too. It's inside one of a from the food, and coffee bubbling in the soldiers score of haystacks that dot the landscope, and it's the only one that electric kitchen.
is not a genuine stack. The belligerent troops, who call themselves So big is this invisible bomber shellfish, wore neat, clean uniforms, something station that the pinnes can take off like our battle dress. But war still means mud in pitch darkness. The pilols know they will have got their planes off to front-line soldiers.
We walked out of France yesterday up what the round long before they reach last spring was a lovers' lane. Two officers sat the end of the field in any direction. at a little folding table, drinking red wine from billy cans. Their men were crunching crusty sandwiches.
Two men in a narrow trench watched beside machine guns pointing out over no-man's land.
Gathered Turnips
At this station to-day a French farmer was gathering his turnips that were growing over a part of the airfeld, Bombers were being warm-
It had been dug through tree roots, and we looked up out of sight all around him.
All around are unti-aircraft posts into Germany through branches to repulse low-lying attacks. They from which the leaves were fall-ure manned day and night. ing. A black cow scratched it.
You may wonder how the gunners self against the French barbed distinguish between friendly and wire.
ON
WAR OFFICE DEAL
MR. JOHN DARBY, of Hillmorton, near Rugby, is three of which he got in the Navy in £1,000 short after his deal in horses with the War Office.
the last war, and one for long service, Brigadier-General Sir Ernest lost an average of and he was expecting a little extra Makins, M.P., is to ask a ques-horse." pension on account of them.
"So, for the first time, we aliould tion about it in the House of
not have had to struggle to make Commons.
ends meet."
Glands Made Young
-Vigour Renewed Without Operation
The question says Mr. Darby had
£100 on each
IDEAL DIET
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Leading Strings
enemy aircraft, ns both are daubed with splotches of drab paint to camouflage them. The reason the One of the two pollus crawled gunners don't open up on our planes into a dug-out, lay down to sleep. Is because of a complicated signal- "Englishman," he yawned, "youting arrangement which they see the general tell him I need some expected to go, through, if they come
Janywhere near an airfield.
silk pyjamas.”
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The lieutenant led us away. They in machine doesn't go through had tied string: from trees to tree so these secret motionswell, it's just that every man could get without as you would imagine. They shoot lights to his fighting post..
it down. of absent-mindedness by any Allied There has not yet been' à report
pilots.
French gans suddenly opened fire behind us, We had seen them carlier, stubby-looking things,
invisible at five yards.
13 horses, which cust him £1,765 FOR DIGESTIVE cleverly camouflaged that they are
requisitioned by an impresament officer for £700.
DISTURBAN
"In view of the fact that these Mr. horses represent the capital ol
The big problem with sufferers Darby's business and that requisition- ing is ruin to his prospects, why has from gastritis or other digestive on disturbances is how to avold pressure been brought to bear him by the Depurtinent to induce pain and discomfort when eating. him not to bring the matter before The inflamed stomach walls, are the county court" the question con- so sensitive that solid foods can not be retained. Even liquid Heavy Losses
foods are often vomited. Mr. Darby, who deals in hunters, Yet, the patient must get quick erful inviguurator known: to ušlende. Je said: "Fortunately, when the buyer sels arrectly on your, Elsada, parves, ang, Vital organ, builds view, pure blood, and) came, some of my best show horses now. strength Into his body. Doctors and nurses' have found woond feel new' Works so tanë tani body power and vin i to do hour. Dashuph of Lim patural notion on glands and Dower memory mod
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"I told him the prices I had paid that Horlicks is retained in the for those he selected, but he told me stomach when other foods are
he was not allowed to pay more than rejected. The reason is that
Around one of the batteries 1 little "pine wood" had been made by sticking Christmas trees in the ground.
The little commander of the for- tress topk us through steel doors down a concrete corridor. There are "Don't spit" notices on the walls. It is manned by 150 "shellfbh."
EARLY FILM
COMIC DIES
FORD. STERLING, one of the early comedians of the screen. died recently in Hollywood. He was 55. Before entering films Sterling was a circus clown and later a cartoonist on a Chiengo newspaper.
We had to climb 172 steps to the
He was associated with Charlie observation post, where in officer Chaplin and the late Mabel Normand shuffled in a circle, his eyes against in several productions. the periscope, just like a submarine His most recent successes included commander. When an order comes "For the Love of Mike,!! "Gentlemen through on the underground fele
Prefer Niondes," and "Sally," phone exchanges, guns rise from thei earth and hurl 'shells over Germany. I saw ona turrel going "into ac tion." From the fire-control rooms,
£60 each, but I could appeal to the Horlicks is so easy to digest.alled with graduated maps, photo county court if I was not satisfied.
At the same time it rebuilds the
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lest Thursday, but the court author- strength and stamina,
ties asked me to accept an adjourn
ment for a tonth, because they had
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"A friend of mine who has had 23 horses commandeered tells me he has
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protected by seventeen feel of steel and concrete.
The officer spid: "This turret can fra eighty shells in threo minutes. Our fire-js- so necurato that I could tank at three treat turret, balanced guarantee to hit, a against a 300-ton steel counter-miles..... weight, was raised by electricity. Two hundred feet underground a The gunners went through the man who once cooked in the kitchens movements of loading and firing of the Savoy Hotel, London, stirred a without teeing their objective, cauldron of mashed potatoes,
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