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March 12, 1940.
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Orge 1945,
FASHION TAKES FRANCE Bombers
HAS
MORE TIME NOW WATCH BUTTON-UP VOGUE
PARIS.
WOMEN will need a lot of leisure to dress and undress, with the new Paris fashions finally signed, sealed and delivered by the remaining Big Four of the Paris dress world.
Science Puts
A Head On
I thought a chemist was a guy
Concerned
with blowing
sky-high.
I thought he used
trained wila
To tear the universe to bils
nic
well-
I got them wrong, these gified
+boys,
For two of 'em, in Hillnois, Have handed out a Big Idea For patling sturdier froth
beer,
on
Now, thanks, to ultra-violet ruyn, The head on every half-plut kayn An extra half-an-hour intact-
A very interesting fact.
I don't suppose you'd wal blow it,
to
But still, I thought you'd like to
know it.
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H. R.
Buttons are not only ornamental but lowly unfasten from throat to knee. Long evening jackets unhookc slowly throughout their length.
A new pencil silhouette launched
by Parts houses at the last minute
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Is challenge to the otherwise universal full-skirted effect.
Sheath-like evening suits, with late Victorian drape where the bustle used to be, scarcely allow room to walk,
Severe tailor frocks, just below the knee, are straight and narrow, with pleated apron to give a faire.offeet of fullness.
Ice Cream Cones
Evening headdresses include "ce cream" cones on the back of the head, some of them trimmed with a wreath of flowers, some with sequins, others with halo brims or nets. Or they have cobweb vells sweeping behind for several feet.
Out of the week's fanhlon forecasts one thing is certain, that If you do not wear sults you will wear dresses with a blouse effect.
Bows make their bow and sashes are almost as popular as belts.
Optimistic Note
The keynote of fashion will be sim- You plicity, optimism, and charm. may permit yourself a few out-of- the-way details, however.
Coarse wool embroidery in fruit and flower designs is used on collars and cus.
Those who cannot afford lavish furs may use the rabbit for almost any occasion, without the difference being really noted.
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ZBW, 355 metres (845 I.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles)
A B.B.C. Recording Of "The Fol-De-Rols"
8.03 New
Light Symphony Or chestra.--Zampa-Overture, Spanish Dance, No. 1. "The Dubarry"--Selce-
Radio Programme Broadcast bylon. Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 845 k.e's
DOGS
Now To Answer
Have Four Guns
Nazi Fighters
A FRENCH HYDROPLANE being luned up in preparation for a reconnaissance flight over the Mediterranean.-French Oficial Photo,
'I will not leave my Country' says Sibelius
FINLAND'S GREAT COMPOSER
WILL STAY WITH PEOPLE
HELSINGFORS.
Secret of New R.A.F. Equipment Is Out
By AN AIR CORRESPONDENT
GERMANY'S airmen have discovered to their cost it can now be revealed that since the outbreak of war practically the whole of Britain's bomber force has been re-equipped with more formidable armament.
The Wellington, for example now generally recog nised as the finest bomber in the world, is surprisingly better than it was before the war.
Recent photographs reveal that the Wellington now have twin guns in their turrets. Flying in close formations of three
Soldier In The Kitchen
they can bring among them 12 machine-guns to bear on Any attacking fighter.
So for they are the only Brilh aeroplanes which have stood a pitch- ed battle over the North Sea and then own on with their bombs to tho Germon harbour which was their objective.
But the harbour was devoid of shipping, so they returned to their base without unloading their bombs. " Airports Photographed Photographs taken over German cafe at Hampton Wick, Middle- nerodromes by British planes flying sex, Miss May Purvey grew at only 2,000 or 3.000ft. may be re- scared of a customer's rising leased for publication soon.
One photograph actually shows in temper.
DURING an argument in
German
one comer the wing of She had accused Ernest Palham, aeroplane landing while British bom-
a 66-year-old night watchman, stealing her wrist-watch.
Palham dented the accusation.
Her Secret
of
Miss Purvey, who is 22, could have called for a man's assistance because her soldier Irlend was in the kitchen washing crockery for
нег.
She explained why she did not do so, when Palham was charged with
JEAN SIBELIUS, the man of seventy-four who has put the spirit of Finland into music, has received invitation after invitation-to-leave-his--war-locked_country-the theft at Feltham Poller Court. and has refused them all.
POSER FOR JUDGE
bers are machine-gunning it.
Two German planes were machine- gunned. for as they flew home they were apparently unaware that the heavy bombers circling round their landing ground were British.
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Aerodrome after aerodrome, well as the whole Siegfried Line, has now been photographed until it is almost possible to build up a comi- plete air-map of secret Germany na far inland as Berlin,
Ordeal By Night
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-At night-time, too, qur bombers aro lights "I had kept it a secret that my continuing reconnaissance friend helps me wash up," she told which constitute some of the most herole efforts of the war. Inciden- the German Mle would not like it spread about tally, pilots say that for fear of being laughed at." black-out has recently got much
blacker. Dismissed
men have Night flight R.A.F. "Why didn't you at least tell him?" hard task. They take off just after she was asked. "A man was wanted, dark and fly across the North Sea for yet you neglected to use the help at more than 300 miles without seeing
the hand. Surely soldier wasn't a thing. All too often the first in- frightened of tackling him?"
dication of their arrival over Ger- many is a tremendous burst of "re- "No," she replied.
works."
In fact, nothing irritates him more than people who suggest he is in danger. the magistrates. He has infinite faith in the men who are defending his homeland.
"They're Finns, aren't they?" while bombs drop around him is!
Aaltonen, celebrated was his comment to a friend of Vaino
sculptor. the family I met. 8.25 Hawallan Selcetions-All My
She had just spent a day with and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 pmLife, Sundown In Old Waikiki, † and 8-11 p.m. on 952 m.e's, per
George Elliott's Hawallan Novelty the composer and his wife at second,
Quartet with Vocal Charts; Kohala their semi-rustic wooden sum- 12.18 p.m. Short Service of Inter- March, Honolulu March. Frank mer-house a few miles out of Jolin K. Paoluhl, Helsingfors, where he is work- 12.30 Compositions of Cesar Franck. (Hawaiian Guitars); Hawalian Hap-ing.
cession.
•
1.03 Les Allen (Vocal) and Carroll Gibbons and Its Boy Friends.
Ferera and
He still works in his villa in
the suburbs, except when ASSESSING
raiding planes come over.
Then he goes out on the ronf with a thirty-two calibre jun and pops at them.
WORTH OF A WIFE
Pistol Practice In Studio 1.00 Local Time Signal and Wra-piness-Medley, Len Fills and His! She said he was, in fine form. ther Report.
Orchestra with Vocal Chorus.
and very proud about the pro- Not so monastic as Sibellus,
A WARDING a husband £500 Aaltonen received me in his)
damages, with costs, in 8.45 B.B.C. Recording-"The Fol-gress of the war.
A few months before the war studio and proudly slung his gun divorce action at Newcastle As- De-Rols"Written and produced by
Sibel us decided to break his rule over his shoulder.
sizes, Mr. Justice Croom-John- Wolseley Charles,
"Sometimes they fly low.son commented: 0.15 Landon Relay-News Sum-of always living a secluded life!
in the country, and open a town Once they were only 100 yards
"I find the greatest dimeulty in above my head, I'll get one yet," trying to find out the worth of B He went into the flat a few he said.
good wife who ultimately has proved
1.30 Reuter und Rugby Press, Wenther Forecast and Announce- ments..
mary,
1.45 Primo-Scala's Accordeon Band: 930 London Relay Cards on the flat. and Florence Desmond (Comedienne). Í Table,"
Clone Down,
2.15
9.45 Schumann-Trio In D Minor,' weeks before war broke out, and in his studio was a pock- to be worthless. I must not specu- 0.00 Excerpts from Gilbert and Op. 3-Cortet, Thibaud and Casals. stayed there for the first fort- marked blackboard. Sullivan's "Pailence."
10.17 Plano Solos by Alfred Corlot. night of the fighting, in spite of what it was for. Quoto-Papillons, Op. 2, Etude En Forme heavy hombardments.
De Valse, Etude in F Minor,
0,28 Closing Local Stock
tions.
6.30 An Hour of Dance Music. 7.30 London Itclay-The News
8.00 Local Time Signai, Weather Report and Announcements.
19.38 Haydn-Syınphony No. 86 In D Major-Lendon Symphony Or- chestra conducted by Bruno Walter.
11.00 Close Down.
FIVE ARMED MEN ROB FILM STAR
NEW YORK.
police-car alren, and mado off FILM stors Constones Rennett and their own car. Anita Louise were being driven along Chicago's Loop--the city's main cen-
"It was the noise that drove him out," his friend told me "He has little fear, but he says the noise was just too unmusi- cal."
"I do pistol practice every morning. If a Russian comes within range I'll shoot him." he answered.
on
grounds
with
Palham said he was justly indig- nnnt at being accused, as he had been a customer at the cafe for two years,
The charge was dismissed.
TRIAL OF YOUNG
Journalist Charged In
Tokyo Court
I asked late an what a jury might do. Some would give muhh larger amounts,"
Tokyo, Mar. 11. The husband, William MacManus.
The trial of Mr. James R. Young, of Felton (Northumberlane's Far Eastern representative of the
of James'
was divorce on
Fleming International News Service, misconduct toffat, gentleman farmer. landowner opened in the District Court at 10.35 and quarry owner, of Felton village. this morning, Seven minutes after He also claimed £1,000 damages, the opening of the trial the publie He was granted a decree alsl, and was excluded.
three of the custody given children.
Higher Walk Of Life MacManus's case' was that he and homa.
Beside the blackboard was n beautiful peasant Madonna and Child.
His Windows Dropped Out
Aaltonen's work that is best But even in the country he known in England is the sculp- sometimes hears the echo of ture on Helsingfors modernistic
the
Judge Kanne Hotia and Procurator Kurihara presided while the Court interpreter WDB Professor Hideo Ogata of the Law College in Yoko- Three attorneys appeared for the
bombs dropping on a town close railway station. He is most his wife were happy for 15 years
until 1037, when he found her and defence: Mesars. Fumio Takashima,
by.
proud of that, especially of a Muffat embracing. Moffat took her Yoshio Fukuba and Yoshio Suzuki. The windows of his own house figure of a young poet. in have dropped out through vibra- tion, and one day the house
Miss Bennett sald at the police rocked.
thing to But he says Finland is his trai rond-early to-day, when five station: This is a ne armed masked bandits forced their happen. First we go to a charity home and inspiration, and re-
performance, and then 'we get robfuses to quit. chauffeur to stop.
bed"
The Russians have fre- Inter. quently bombed the station. He said: "If they destroy my work there I'll be very angry."
According to the Japanese Press away in a car.
She returned, but went off again "sumelent proof has been collected by Procurator Nobociishi of the District The Judge sold he could only as-Thought, Section of the Procura- sume that Mrs. MacManus was in-tor's Office of the Tokyo duced to do what she did by the Court to substantiate the charges courtship of Moffat; who was in a fabrication and circulation of rumours superior walk-of-life, to MacManus. laid against Mr. Young Irrespective Ho is a man who, If he had hind of whether Mr. Young will recognise Misa Dennett and Miss Louise were
Sibelius is a typical Finn In
nny decent feelings about him, might it or not." Mr. Young was arrested
attending
Richard Ainley, who lost nothing looks a rugged, pensant figure,
He is carving a female statuo have left this much humbler man to on January 21 at the Imperial Hotel. going home after charity performance. They were said:
with head and square chin of Freedom to replace the figure those much dearer to him," the Judge-Reuter, escorted by Richard Ainley, son of quiet,' and I did."
Miss Bennett lost a diamond brace-shaped very liko Winston of the Ruasian Czar Alexander added. actor Henry Ainley,
the let worth more than £5,000 and a Churchill's.
in Helsingfors University. Hol The bendits fumned
to on running board of their car, rough-chean Imitation ring.
Miss Louise lost a diamond bracelt, handled them and stole jewellery worth more than £8,000,
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"The robbero told me 'Sit
The Spirit Of Battle
Ho is now working on a' now is also working on an enormous tor says: "The war has inspired mo. I realise now more than a diamond ring and sapphire ring. composition that is nearing com- portal for a frontier bridge.
That, too, has an apt theme, over that I must put the spirit of Bracelets and rings were torn from The band's missed diamond car-platfon. It will be first played
The figures are of soldiers and this battle into stone." actresses, and the bandits were rings, some jewels hidden by Mir in Finland, he says.
He has his chisel, and he also struggling to take off Miss Bennett's Benneti's gardenin corpage, and £80 Another world-famous Finn peasants fighting aggression." expensive mink coal when they be- which Richard Ainley had in his
artist who goes on-working This forty-five-year-old sculp-has his gun. came frightened by the sound of a
the
wallet.
Adjourned To Friday
Tokyo, Mar. 11. The next session will be on Friday. Three Americans were, allowed to be present to-day, Mrs, Young, Y.MC.A. offcial acting as her trans- lator and an Embassy observer..
Young appeared to be in good health and apirila.United Prem
Every type of projectile is hurled at them-and it all helps to confirm for them that their navigation has been good.
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THE
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