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City Girls Now Work As Lumber Jacks
City girls are now working as lumber jacks in England's backwoods. They belong to the new Forestry Section of the Women's Land Army. Here ara Evelyn Andrews, toho roorked in a Liverpool store. and Belly Stephenson, who exchanged the scissors and overall of a hairdresser at St. Anne's, Lancashire, for the khaki and are of the "foresterens."
Nazis hunt Priests for Work
·BRATISLAVA (Slovakia). HITLER, who has so far re- frained from declaring open war; on Roman Catholics in Germany. has now done so in Poland. Distribution of the Pope's· En- cyelleal denouncing Nazi and Communist dictatorship has been made a capital offence by the Nazi authorities in German- Occupied Poland.
The bishop's paluce at Lodz Jas been raided several times by Gesto- po oficials on the pretext that they were looking for copies of the En- cyclical.
The bistop. M. Tomezak, was ar rested last month, it was learned. After spending some weeks in pri- son he has now been released, but is stil under house arrest.
"I joined on the spur of the mo mont," said Sadie Baxter, who was a dressmaker in Blackpool, "I certainly don't regret it after working in a study room making lovely gowns for other people to wear,"
"Women Are Born Liars," He Says
CORONER WAS
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MR. INGLEBY ODDIE, famous London coroner for twenty-seven years, does not want to retire. To- morrow he sits for the last time. It is his seventieth birthday. Yesterday he discussed with me the notable cases he has investigated, and the effect they have had] on him.
"I am very sorry indeed that I have to go," he said. "I have reached the age limit and so I must. But my three predecessors retired at the ages of eighty, seventy- nine and seventy-five. I had hoped, now that I am well again, to be allowed to carry on at least until the end
COMEDIAN'S of the war. BOYHOOD
"I shall miss my work exceed- Ingly. What am I going to do? Well, I shall read about the war,
best.
"I do not intend to write ny
Alice Fletcher, 17-year-old typist, and Olive Cheney. aged 18, hairdresser from Lecus, are two of the youngest in the camp. They love the life, and Olive likes best of all the sing-song round the hut fire SITTING in the library of his i at night after the day's work is done. They are
luxurious home in Hollywood, memoirs until the war is over. paid 283. a week by the Timber Control Board, and
Charlie Chaplin, millionaire as a long time and I'm dead, well out of this pay 143, a week for their keep.
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HOME SOLDI presume, and hope for the
PAINTERS SAID THEIR MIND
GENEVA.
CURTAINS were drawn over the windows of the Ger- man railways' travel bureau in Geneva to-day.
The bureau was transferred from Paris at the outbreak of war, and a few days ago local workers were engaged to paint signs on the windows. Instead they painted just what they thought of Hitler. Hence the drawn curtains.
MESSERCHMITTS- NAZI MAINSTAY
often conjures up in his mind's eye the picture of a London attic where once he lived with his mother.
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If it
German Pastor For Brighton
A German pastor who be came the victim of Nazi persecution because his father was a Jew is to be- come curate at Preston Church Brighton.
He is Pastor W. Oclsner, who Was pastor of a Lutheran church in Berlin:
Trouble urose with the Nazis because of his parent- age, although the pastor himself is married to German countess. She could have remained in Germany, but preferred to leave with her husband, and they 'camie to England with 10 marks cach.
Pastor Oelsner will be ordained by the Bishop of Chichester, Dr. G. K. A. Bell, at Preston Old Church.
R.A.F. MATERNITY
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CASE JOLTED THEM
A TELEPHONE message threw the staff of a French hospital into a state of consternation and astonishment.
"This is the R.A.F.." Bald 3 Big-hearted Arthur, they call him voice at the other end of the line, and for good reason. "We are sending you a casualty in It's a ma- an R.A.F. ambulance. lernlty case."
"Ias my job made me a cynie. about marriage? No, it has not.
He has dozens of enses of measles My work often shows mankind up in a bad light, but also often
and mumps, and cheerfully treats everything they bring him. An shows much unsuspected goodness,
Not until and kindliness.
the position had beenagliated mother came to him to say · much sympathy And often it gives me a chance to fully explained to the mystined Re-that her daughter was expecting a aged do some publle good, which is very sldent Medical Offeer did the hospi- baby at any moment. The
tal authorities agree to take the case.medico was unable to come. Would heartening.
"Arthur" help her in her distress" We have not, as the doctor ex- "It has never affected my sense of
officers out So us the pensants дологогу here. The "casualty" was u French medical practitioner, "Arthur" had The house which contains Charile's humour, and certainly has not made plained, women flying
woman who lives in a village near taken on the case. attie is "down Lambeth wayat No me depressed. 3 Pownal Terrace, Kensington Road. It is one of a row of eight, bullt in 1800, and fronting one of South Lon- dan's, busiest arteries.
Charlie's house is little changed eagerly since the days when he clintbed. its stairs to take home to his other the first shillings he corneri a member of a concert party
He knew
"Quite frankly, I love my job. do not look forward to the farewell party to-morrow. ing goodbye.
one of the R.A.F. aerodromes behind the Maginot Line.
The old village, doctor is too in-
I shall hate suy-firm to go out at night; it is to the
"I have come to the conclusion that most women are simply born llars and can help themselves. I have seen women stand up in front of me and give the most de- tailed an precise information.. every word of which has been a
RAF. doctor attached to a British bombing squadron in the district
moments of crisis.
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Until recently the terrace contained about..twice.ps_many_houses. It was ent in helf to make room for the The two most interesting-cuses building of a new cinema. Now the in my life were those of Vern Page that the 300 villagers turn-in-such "Arthur"-wired back-his-congratu By MAJOR F. A. de V. Robertson
rest of the terrace is in the murkel. mid of Nora Upchurch. Both were
murder cases. LONDON.
the ME.110 the Heligoland Bight
It is quite af
Factory Banned The most familiar of the first made its markt.
"In the Vern Page murder, the Recently there was a proposal to murderer was never discovered. In All the Jesult priests of Lodz German fighter aircraft are the different type from the ME.109, ns!
Benz engines,, build a factory on the site, but the the case of Nora Upchurch I was have been arrested, and are being Messerschmitts -the ME.109 has two Danler pressed into Pollsh fabour squads. and the more formidable and carries a crew of two or three. London County Council stepped in always perfectly certain who the its armument is fairly heavy, and is stopped any idea of this, insist-murderer was. After a year or two which are belag formed, some for ME.110.
believed to consist usually of four in that the site be kept for residente murdered another woman. Had work in Germany,
he been convicted at the Upchurch others in the
The ME.199 15 a single-seater, mochine-guns in the wings and two til purposes. Polish Corridor, where they are
trial that second woman would never have lost her life. expected "to tidy up things" for single-engined fighter, armed usually small shell-tring guns.
with four machine-gas. With the Balle German settlers.
Daimler Benz engine (an carlier. Its speed is perhaps 20 miles an Junkers engine) It is our greater than that of the 31E.109. A Polish pastor named Falzmun is type has
with a top speed of 323 It is not, however, purely a fighter, faced with the death sentence, al-credited though the only charge against him... or a little more. In fact, with and would probably be easily out
learn is the latest type of D.13. engine it may manoeuvred by our fighters, Esperl-troupe, so far as his flock can
Nazi be a little faster than the Hurricane, ally if it were carrying a heavy lond "loyalty to Poland." The
of the war the of petrol. For that reason it would No. 3 must hold for Charlle that authorities argue that since Poland: the first weeks is occupled by the German Army all ME.109 was the most popular Ger- probably not be very successful as prompted Mr. R. G. Rutty, of Messrs. of high man fighter, but it soon proved an exort for German bombers. It is Doules Young. the film of estate
useful for attacking our bumbers.
"It has not taken me in. disappointment.
us film star a the famous,
chance of The merits of the shell-qua in air-agents handling the property, to give
always detect a far, but I've often There were rumours that its wings craft have still to be proved. It can owning it. Factory Prison
"I know he has a ubi affection for marvelled at it. There are excep- would Butter, that it was able to
"Thutitions, of courge. single hit miny prove
"Mr. Rutty told me. it." Just as in the pogrom of Roman stall on a fast turn, and that its high one the machine-aurs, and a Catholtes in Vienna lust winter the fonding speed made landings at nightponent. Hite, however, are always shown by the fact that whenever he
to achieve at longer being a hazardous business, Certainly it more dificult young Nazi extremists are
Calls is always to that old home of
"There is one thing I would like given full liberty of action in Poland. was out-manoeuvred by the Curtis nge, and much les munition can comes to this country one of his first!
shell-gun.
his in Kennington Road. These have taken over some of the ud Morane of the French and by be carried for n
"I have therefore written to him to say. I have had about 3,000 street textile factories of Lodz na prisons the British Hurricane. Its four guns varying merits of mere machine-guns were no match for the eight of the and more ammunition versus fewer
the war they were being reduced by -mainly for religious prisoners.
Hurricane, and 11 niso suffered
In the terrace, is now in the market,
more than half (I speak about Cen- be decided
nai suggesting he might like the optral London, of course), thanks to tories, which once contributed to attempted to attaxis our Wellington destructive power may
What happens inside these fac-invercly when, on rare occasions. Kuns with fewer rounis but grenteri telling him the house, with the othere fatalities to deal with, and before vortunity of buying the place for sepedestrian crossings and traffic lights. the industrial wealth of Poland, is bombers, with their formidable gun
timental reasons,"
I have always been rather, hard on not known. But no prisoners who turrets. The probability is that wel
the pedestrian, blaming him for most have been driven into their cob-hall not hear much more of the
of the street fatalities." bled courtyards in Gestapo lorries ME.100. have so for come out alive.
Polish patriots are guilty trenson against Germany.
It
In the first great 'nir battle between
At Biala, near Lodz, the local vicar qur bombers and German fighters in
and the rest of his parishioners, all peasunts, were driven at the point of the bayonet into the vicarage. The building was theri locked and sur- rounded by about twenty Nazls, who threw hand grenades through the windows until all inside were, dead.
before this war is over.
to an
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LONDONA patient at Withing-Frederick Ryan, a chauffeur ton Hospital, Manchester, collapsed formerly employed by him. during an operation and his breathing
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"So I think I'd better be careful Phelps, who was there when Mrs. Chaplin and young Charlie moved crossing the streets of London on to court on Monday. It would be just my luck. to be a street from a house on the other side of my way Kennington Road.
last day She also remembers tils return up accident on my those stairs to the atile as a world-coroner.". famous und rich man. "Bless him,"
And with a chuckle this man--who she said, "when he came to see us on
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the guilty his lust visit he went up to see the has looked on tenant who took it when he and his sternly rebuked
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back to anish his game of bridge, writes a London correspondent.
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the notable cases Among The net proceeds of the Charity Concert organised by St. John's Hall Oddle has investigated were the Music Club on February 29, under assassination of Sir Henry Wilson by the distinguished patronage of His Sinn Feiners; the Jaquest of Fahmy Excellency the Governor, amounted Bey, the millionaire Egyptian prince to $724.40, which lins boen divided shot dead in a famous West End between the British War Organisa-hotel; the inquiry into the depth of tion Fund and the British Fund actress Regine Flory, who shot her the Relief of Distress in China. Aself in Drury Lane. copy of the statement of accounts Is
When he was at the Bar he was posted on the notice. board of St. John's Hall, University of Hongkong, one of the Treasury counsel who The Club wishes to thank all who conducted the prosecution of the so kindly supported the concert.
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