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What Happened To Johnstone of “Layton and Johnstone”
"God Knows I Endured Enough To Marry Him"
NEWSMEN GO UNDERGROUND
A party of American and other foreign
underground in the Maginet Bne, which official Photograph.
AIR
they
photographed Journalists
visited recently.-French
BLITZKRIEG
WOULD BE
BOOMERANG
NAZI
IF Germany were to launch at seater fighters with tricycle landing blitz air attack which slowed up gear and a 1000 hp. Allison engine Britain's warplane production, set behind the pilot, who sits over! the R.A.F. would still be able to draw on U.S.A. production as well as from the Dominions.
Aur German blitz would result In a counter-attack,~-and-the- Ger mans, at the moment, have no reserve prodaction source, The millions that Britain is spend ing on American warplanes, up to the moment,
an extension shaft turning the three- bladed propellor in front of him.
New York.
ȚIE Englishwoman whose marriage
THE
to negra singer Clarence John- Istone startled London five years ago sat in her one-room home in New (York and told me she was happy,
Gazing adoringly at his blonde. blue-eyed wife us she told of her love for bin, sat the dunky husband who it Layton and Johnstone sing→ jing partnership won wealth in British
variety years ago.
Now Johnstone, who went bank- rupt before feaving England, is a poor man, and his wife Raymonde. whom the British violinist. Albert Sandler, divorced in 1934, is shar- ing his poverty in a Hiile room on the fringe of Harlem, grim negro district of New York.
I knocked at the door of a dingy [roaming house and come face to face with the woman whom coloured neighbours call the "beautiful blonde kdy
She sat a blue silk wrap on
furnished big double bed in a room
with a dressing table and large, gramophone.
Her Lost Daughter
་
On the mantelpiece, in the place of honour, was a photograph of a pretty pigtail English schoolgirl-plump,
is Mrs. over each shoulder. She Johnstone's nine-year-old daughter by her first marriage.
T card By the photograph was bearing the words "Mother dear" -doubtless a love token from her an English daughter far away in school.
"Why have you come to see us?" asked Mrs. Johnstone. "We left the English world so long ago."
In a torrent of conversation the couple recalled the delights of Eng- land and the Continent in the day's when they lived and travelled in luxury.
Johnstone walked to a pile of old The pilot's cabin is like the records and put one on the gramo- coupe compartment of a car, with phone.
It was Layton and Johnstone sing-
a side-door through which he can
escape it the machine burns,in-one of their greatest son
"Happy, lie has brakes so that after touch- triumphs -- "Whether I'm ing the ground he con pull up quickly in a small front-line airfield. Whether l'in Blue. It All Depends
These machines are suld to have
on You."
Johnstone's we smiled
under-
From a drawer they took a letter pasted on cardboard. It was an invitation from an equerry of the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of
Johnstone
for specialised type 400 m.p.h. under the engine-cowilnu standingly at him. whose need has been plainly shown.
But there is every indication that Fast as Hurricanes so far as front-line hters and bombers are concerned we shall continue to rely mainly on our own products. These are either slightly abead or on a level with Nuzi de signs.
Used Over Norway
Wales, Inviting
'chterlain a private party. Mrs. Johnstone told me how her America fnur
Love Him"
"I followed my husband because "My place I love him," she said.
The R.A.F. can now order, thanks, to the United States Government, (a) Curtiss P.40 fighter, (b) Lock- heed 1.38 ghter, (e) Douglas attack bomber, (d) Martin attack bomber.
The Curtiss gliter is said to be as husband returned to fast as the Hurricane (nearly 340 years ago and how she followed. m.p.b.), but it does not look us What United States warplanes, though it would be sa manoeuvrable. excluding trainers, is. Britain using It is something like the Messersch- now? What has she ordered, and mitt 100 in wing design. why? What is she said to favour? It would be a much faster fighter What types are available if she
with a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. wants
to buy them? The R.A.F. are using Lockheed The Lockheed Bhter has twin Hudson xeneral
reconnaissance engines and a twin fuscinge. This, nonoplanes, which, similar in up- too, is reputed to have 400 m.p.h. In pearance to the Lockheed 14 civil hand-necording to the United States ulr-liner, have specialised military War Department. It could be made equipment. They are well powered into a two-seater with a fair amount with two 1100 h.p. Wright Cyclone of ease, thus enabling more guns to engines.
be operated.
These machines are mostly being used by the Coastal Command. They fust, well-arnied, moderately manoeuvrable. They have done well
arc
It crossed the U.S.A, last year at average speed ot, 305 m.p.h, on a elaimed 60 per cent. throttle.
is always with him. God knows I endured enough to marry him."
I heard She didn't tell me what later from neighbours that during
is illness she went out to help to pay doctors bills.
work to
the
10-
The colour bar is so strict in New York that Mrs. Johnstone and her
even husband cannot enter
Haricm simple cafes outsidò Eether, and she cannot be received with him in most while society.
London In the divorce action in Sandler
ler was awarded £2,500 dam- ages against Johnstone, e.ted as the
on attacks in Norway, showing that The Douglas attack bomber, an corespondent, but the coloured singer their range, which has not been re-improved D-7, is said to be capabic won his appeal against damages. vealed, is more than adequate with of 375 m.p.h. Before the war France ordered 100 of the original DD-75, heavy bomb loads.
The RA.F. bave ordered, according which were 300 mp.h. machines with to American sources (a) 120 Brew-tricycle undercarriuges, ster single-seater naval fighters; (b)
The Martin attack bomber is the
250 Consolidated flying boats: (c) 107, of which 215 were ordered by 200 Douglas naval dive-bombers. the French before the war. Those
Sido-door for Escapo
!r:,
supplied to France did 275 m.p.h. There is an improved version doing 335 m.p.h. It is a small, twin-en The Brewstera (value £2,100,000 with spares) are metal mid-wing gined machine capable of carrying monoplones. They had engines of half a ton of bombs and 030 h.p., but hear there is a Intermunition load. engine, the Weight Cyclone G-200,
Johnstone's former partner, Turner Layton is still one of the big draws in British variety.
When Clarence Johnstone ap. peared for his public examination in London after his bankruptcy. It was stated that the joint income of himself, and Turner Layton from 1928 to 1936 was £160,000. In one year they made a pront of 33,000. When Turner Layton was told
big am-
Finally, it must be stated that if about warplanes.salistes the RA.F., it is The Consolidated flying-boats often possible for them to be fitted are well-known. They can pairol with British engines. Present British for 35 hours over 4,000 miles with air engine design is ahead of the
of 1200 h.p.: which yields 330 m.p.h. the design of certain. United States sie news from New York, he
maybe more.
a crow
"This is terrible, I am distressed to hear it.
"Johnstone and I have not corre- sponded since we split the partner-
of six. Although slow, American types, and shortly all ship. But I am sorry to hear of hia they have their unes over ocean more advanced designs will be ap-bad luck. I sincerely hope he has
beats.
The Douglas dive-bombers, again
naval types (value, £2,500,000) are
two-seaters. These, too,
дго not
outstandingly fast with their 900
Pratt and Whitney engines.
They would be useful for observation
pearing.
'.
seen. the worst of it."
DESHABILLETEES -
work, and attacks on the German HUNDREDS of giri Civif servants in Bath are, to have a club in which
they can wash, mend and iron their "undies"
naval units and bares,
The RAF. may order 000 Bell
In another of the club there will be `blillards and darts rooms for P-30a. These are unusual single- male guests, and a committee room for the Civil Service Clerical Association.
COBBELS
SYLT-
SCAPA
BALANCE
SHEET
May 1, 1940. By Walt Disney
DODO
BIRD
WALT DISNEY
*** CONTINUED from page six
The German Press issued the following balance-sheet on Scapa Flow and Sylt raida:-
Scapa Flow (Credit)
One British baille-
ship "as good as destroyed" ......£11,250,000- Two battleships scri-
ously damaged £10,060.000 One cruiser seriously
damaged
Two more big ships seriously damaged Damage
three British aerodromes Damage to British
A.A. batteries
Total
Sylt (Debit)
Oslo
Plotters
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Was Betrayed
Within Her
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By
Nazi Gates
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fren the people starell. Thousands of, When I hurried into the telegraph stood watching and listening on the young men stood watching this oc-building I had hopes. There were pavements below. I looked closely, cupation parade. Not one hand or still no German troops guarding the but as far as I could see they were voice was raised. We could discern door. But immediately I knew I simple curious and somewhat enter
tained. As on the previous night, no sign of resentment, upon any face was too late.
after the occupation of the city, the about us. This was the most in-
The first hint came when weman enfes were filled in almost normal comprehensible thing among all the incomprehensible things of this fan- employee who always addressed me fashion, and a large number of young in perfect English spoke to me in men were tolling in them as if no tustie 24 hours.
...German and tried to refuse the such thing as a regular Norwegian Sumchow it seemed as if curiosity was the strongest sentiment in the message on the ground that I hud army were ready to offer resistance
the no speemi telegraph card. But her to the invader only 50 miles throng of Osloans who watched the chief had already accepted my des- of the capital. Germans come in. No other emotion
Wherever we went we saw groups was betrayed in the countless faces patch at one o'clock. Finally she
accepted it relictantly, together with of young people clustered round Ger- we scanned
only anxiously, indinant people we met or saw that crowns which had to be puid in them chatted pleasantly 64 dollars worth of Norwegian man soldiers on guard..
Some
of with were foreigners,
Nor- wegians of Oslo, seemed stunned advance. Then she told me in Ger- soldiers, some stared at their rifles beyond recovery. All acted curious than that I must see Fraulein Hauge and machine-guns and asked ques- the next morning, or no more mes- tions about them. Many young girls ly, like chiren suddenly given a
gazed admiringly at the men in feld- chance to see a parade of strange sages would be accepted. Of course, creatures nut of prehistoric times the next 24 hours were never sent.
my own and all other despatches for grey uniforms, something which had no connection The Germans had closed all wires as with real life.
well as the teleplione lines to the
£2,250,000
£3,750,000
£208,300
£100,250
£34,230,550
day
£60
£9
£28
£07
One damaged house roof One ritfe range to be re-
paired Window panes to be re-
placed
Total
The
The
outside. world.
Next day, Wednesday, was as un-
the
10s. For Bad. Coin Of Charles I's Day
Public Offices Taken Over But within two hours real life was making itself felt in Oslo. The Ger- believable as the events of April 9 mans had necupled the capital. They had been. Germun troops now stood While digging a grave In Long simply paraded in, taking it over, guard over Parliament, the Univer- Crendon (Bucks) churchyard, Mr. much as Frenchmen or Italians might sity, the City Hali and other public George Connan, the sexton, turned parade into a colonial village some-buildings. My first shock came early up a Charles I half-crown.
Such coins are by no means rare, LONDON, Apr. 30 (Reuter)-Sir where in the interior of Africa. Now in the morning as I passed the Stor-
tom of they went to work. It was the urgent thing. Two score German soldiers but when Mr. Cannon took his find Southern task of the tiny force of 1,500 men filled the open windows of the third to Oxford Museum they told him Rhodesia has been extended until to seize the key places of the nation's floor of the Parliament building, all they were glad to have it, and re- April, 1941. Sir Herbert
been capital. They did it swiftly, without singing lustily, while one pumped warded him with a ten shilling note.
Osloans Inny fear of interruption.
Voyfully at his accordion. Governor since 1935.
Reason the coin was counterfeit.
Herbert James Stanley's office
35
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