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Fortune is Awaiting Lost Song Writer
One X For Two
Signatures
A woman who could not write guided the hand of her hurband, who could not see, when he made a cross on their joint will.
This was accepted as the signature of both the blind and his wife by Mr. Justice Henn Collins in the Probate Court in London.
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A STRANGE FATE IS THAT OF THE YOUNG JAROMIR Vejvoda.
Jaromir, formerly a Czech, and now technic- ally a German subject, is the composer of "Beer Barrel Polka,' to the rousing strains of which British troops are marching to war.
The song has had such a spectacular success that a huge sum is piling up in royalties, but Jaromir cannot be located, and in any case the money cannot be sent to him because of the Act which forbids trading with the enemy,
The song was written in 1934 and became the rage of Prague It under the title of "Skoda Lasky," meaning "Pity of Love." was then a sentimental ballad, mourning "wasted love that I gave you, my eyes to-day keep on crying....'
When Iller invaded Czecho- slovakin the Czechs became too sad
"Skoda Lasky" became memory in Prague.
Nazis Claim To Have Sunk More Than to
1,000,000 Tons Of Allied Shipping
But music goes round and round. and "Skoda Lasky" captured the ear of an American publisher whe find new words written for the
BUT REAL FACTS WILL melody which, at the same time, was
BE FOUND BELOW
LONDON, Jan. 2 (Reuter).—The German boast that over a million tons of Allied and neutral shipping has been sunk is the usual exaggeration.
The average weekly loss of British tonnage in 16 weeks is 25,000. The average weekly increment by new construction and otherwise-is-25,000.-
True Figures
:
Tutai losses to the end of the year were as follows:
Seventeen Naval vessels, including eight warships, with a total displace- ment of 58,120 tons;
Nine chartered vessels, namely the Rawalpind! and eight trawlers and drifters, with a total of 10,000 gross fonoare;
One hundred and seventeen British,
12 Allled and 81 neutral merchant
Message To Congress
Roosevelt To Call For United U.S.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (Reu- Roosevelt'a annual message at the opening
ships with a total gross tonnage reter). President spectively of 421.404, 70,101 and 243
222.
It is misleading to add the gross of Congress to-morrow ia ex- uri displacement of tonnage.
pected to be devoted primarlly,
Neutrals will doubtless note the to the need for stronger defences German boast of destruction of de-in view of world conditions. fenceless neutral merchant vessels, says this special commentary.
Huge Mineral
Wealth
Canada's New Record In Production
LONDON, Jan. 2 (British Wire- Jess)-The value of mineral produc- tion in Canada in 1939 is estimated
It is believed that he may also w for great national unity and leas partisanship in order that America May present a united front in world peace efforts.
Major Congress Battle
No startling innovations in legiala- Bon are expected, but a major battle looms over continuance of the Ad- mlulstration's reciprocal trade pro- gramme, which is due to oxpire on
y 12. while few, if any, ulterations are contemplated in the Neutrally Act. unless peelai legislation regard- ing Japan is sought.
at $470.170,000-an all-time high re-Reds Seek Instructors
coed, representing a six per cent.
increase over the preceding year and three per cent, over 1037 when the previous highest was reached,
Soviets Have
New output records are reported Learnt From
for antimony, gold,
copper,
nickel, cadmium, crude petroleumi, natural gas, pypaum, sulphur, and Ume.
Several new gold mines reached production stage and the gold pro- ductive field was widened,
Increase In Iron Ord
Nazis Before
pepped up to quick foxtent.
Its new chorus-became
"Roll out the barrel, we'll have
a barrel of fun,"
Roll out the barrel, we've got the
-blues on the run.
Tap-dancing film actress · Ruby Kecler has led a sul for divorce 'ai Los Angeles against Al Jolson, known all out the world as the (lim singer o "Sanny Boy." Misa Keeler in thirty. He is fifty-three. "Extreme cruelty" is alleged.
S. A. Rallies To Allied Cause
Volunteers Rushing
To The Colours
Zing! Boom! Ta-rar-rel Ring
out a song of good cheer. Now's the time to roll the barrel, LONDON, Jan. 2 (British Wire- less),-A survey of the mallilary pre- For the gang's all here."
South Africa, made The English rights were secured parations in
between olleially in the Union, states that the 1.150,000 and 200,000 copies have
by Keith, Prowse, already been sold there. There have Untons new Citizen army is making been forty different gramophone remarkable progress. recordings.
and
Reports from town and country in
But no one here or in America knows what has happened to Jaramie al quarters of South Africa reflect
enthusiasm
which with Vejvoda-the man who gave Tommy the
volumteers are coming forward. a new Tipperary,'
*P.S. "Bect Barrel Polka" has become one of the greatest swing polka s at the long- kong Hotel, where it has been popularised by Nick Korin and his Orchestra
Braide
BELGIUM
FRANCE
THE
FRIESLAND
proclamation of a state of slege in some of Hol- land's frontier regions, makes no change in the country's milltary postion, Dutch mlil- tary experts say. It is a similar measure to that which came into fores during the Great War. But the provinces to which the proclamation refers (shaded by the map) seem to indicate that Xolland fears a German favasion from the sea as much as on the land,
the
A single example is the Botha Regiment, which had risen from a peace-time strength of 400 to a war- time strength of over 900, and the formation of another battalion of this regiment is in progress,
Cordial Co-Oporation
Are
New units are also being formed in such typically rural areas, as Mession, Barberton and Vereeniging. A spirit of cardial co-operation dominates all activities the survey continues, and any sectional differences have been set aside. Everywhere the fact is South appreciated that all Africans and complete unity is ex-
T pressed in the common cause. Burvey points out that the lle is given to Nazi propagandist Insinuations that discrimination against Afrikaans- defence speaking members of the force abtains, by. the fact that by far the larger number of officers permanently serving in 'South Africa's
bearing army are men Afrikaan names, and they, like the officers bearing English names, are bi-lingual.
Natives Want To Help
senior
The anxiety of native peoples to participate in the defence of South recent Africa was expressed at a meeting in Pratorin of the Natives most Representative Council, the Important organ of native opinion in the Union. During the meeting. one delegale summed up the position jos follows: "Since war broke out, every African organization that has held meeting has expressed its un- swerving devotion to the King and to His Government in the Union. An account has recently appeared in the Press, of, how the native employees of a big concern. in Transvaal have Jstarted in fund to buy a warship for Britain, and this, I am convinced, is throughout the Veilan are feeling."
336 Die In U.S. vel of what the native people
Holiday Toll
LONDON, Jan. 2 (Reuter).- "If Stalin receives technical re- infereements from Germany tu] help him in the war in Finland, Iron ore was produced on a com-it will not be the first time that mercial scale for the first time in 10 the Red Army has been stiffen- years at Michipicoten, and this was led with German military ins perhaps the mest significant develop- ment of the year in the Canadian tructors," anys "Router's" mili- mining industry.
tary correspondent. :
SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH Influenced 1937 Purgo A considerable amount of prospect-
the "IN
pre-Hitler decade week-end holiday deaths numbered ing and development work carried out in those metals and ores thrusands of German professional 330, of which 101 were due to traffic and non-commissioned accidents, 43 auleldes, 15 by fire, and which have hol, os et, been produced officers
but officers were employed with the 87 from miscellaneous causes, in- to atly great extent in Canuda which are important for war pur- Soviet, armles, but Hitler reculled cluding drownings, fails, exposures
include them when he rose to power. metals posen. These molybdenum, manganese, mercury "The purge of 1037,, when Stalin {and tungsten.
removal at, executed many of his It is also reported that several new lown officers arosa, directly from the all-wells were brought into produc-fence exercised on their outlook Son Alberta....
by German training."
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NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (UP)-The
174 Ships Took The
B.E.F. To France LONDON, Jan. 2 (British Wire- wankly : - journal, "Shipping less)-In an article appearing in and other forms of violence.
World," Sir John Olmour, Minister California registered 37 deaths and of Shipping, reveals that the British Illinois 36. Each of these States Expeditionary Force was convoyed
of:over:400 voyages, registered 21 deaths due to traffe to France in 174 hips making a total
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