Friday,
NANCY
OH, MR. JOLLY BEAN !--- · [ TALKED IT OVER WID MY UNCLE HARRY AN' HE SAID IT'S O.K. FOR ME TO MOVE OVER TO YOUR
ESTATE!
OH, FINE SLUGGO!
BOY! ---. IT'LL
BE GREAT› FUN LIVIN' IN A NIFTY JOINT LIKE DAT!
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 3, 1940.
Bushmiller
-ER---EXCEPT WE STILL
HAVE TO TELL MY WIFE ABOUT IT--- SHE
DOESN'T KNOW AS YET!
By Ernie
WELL-LET'S GET. GOING ---EVERYTHING'S
ALL SET-
RADIO PERFECT GIRL' PLANS
ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.e.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Harry Ore and J. R. M. Smith from the Studio
Broadcast by Z. B. W. on a Fre- quency of 845 k,c's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.16 p.m. and 3-11 p.. on 0.52 m.c's. per second.
12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter- crasion.
12.30 Jack Jackson and Ills Or- chestra, Frances Day and Ike Hatch.
1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
Hits
Neusel The Herr General (But Not
Too Hard
PRIVATE NEUSEL, of the Reichswehr -you remember him as Walter Neusel,
1.03 Plano Ducts by Rawicz, and heavy-weight champion of Germany-has
Landauer.
tra.
1.12 New Mayfair Dance Orches-
struck it cushy.
They have called him out of the Sieg-
1.30 Reuter and Jugby Press, fried Line to box a general's ears.
Weather Forecast and Announce- ments,
-145 "Band Waggon."
With Arthur Askey, Richard Mur- doch and Company. Produced by Harry Pepper and Gordon Crier.
2.15 Close down,
6.00 An Hour of Dance Music. 7.00 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.
7.02 Selections from Glibert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe."
1.30 London Relay-The News. 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Light Orchestral.
8.15 Stadio Our Weekly Calendar. The Arst of a series of Interesting anniversaries,
This particular bit of "strength through joy" is with one of the chief Nasties, Herr General von Reichenau,
The Herr General is a good deal more athletically inclined than some others of the Regime-Goering, for instance.
Te enused a sensation during the Polish campaign by continuing his habitual early morning runs while In the field.
THIS WINDING ROADWAY In is So every morning in Berlin (says Maahedat Valley 1.U.P.) the wiry 66-year-old general typical of the ter may be seen with his trainer, Neusel, rain over trutting Grunewald,
witlelt
in the Tiergarten or the Nazi meeltanised now Brita arc
It ad at Berlin's operating, And most afternoons, Selwool of Boxing, Neusel can enjoy Norway been pre- the privilege of boxing his general's pared for the in- vasion defence ears with impunity.
Well, not with impunity. For if would have been the "blonde ger" doesn't let the eomparatively Herr General get one in sometimes easy. it will be back Elgar Cockaigno
to the Siegfried
The B. B. C. Symphony Orchestra 'conducted by Sir Edward Elgar.
Recital 8.45 Studlo Two-Plano
Orchestra 8.20 Alfreds and lis and Willam Brownlow (Baritone).
8.32 Overture, Op. 40.
Concert
Line.
by Harry Ore and J. R. M. Smith.
1. Duettino, in the style of Mozart (Busoni); 2, (a) Andante from Sonata
in
G (Mozart), (b) Gavotte in G (Mozart); 3, The Sewergirl (Mous- sorgski); 4, Musetie in A Flat (Sibe- Jius); 5, Russian Easter Church-bells from Fantasy, Op. 5 (Rachmaninoff).
9.15-London-Relay-News Sum-..
mary.
9.30 London Relay "World Af- fairs."
0.45 Concert Waltzes,
10.00 London
mentary.
Relay-War Com
10.15 Puccini's "Madanı Butter-
fly" Act 2.
11:00 Close Down.
SCIENCE BATTLES LOVE
FOR A MAN'S LIFE!
DISPUTED PASSAGE
A Paramount Picture with
Dorothy Lamour Akim Tamiroff John Howard ·
Froduced and Directed by, FRANK BORZAGE Based on the Hovel by Lloyd C, Douglas
TO-MORROW
AT THE
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
PERFECT
NAZIS FIGHTING HERE
Breach
May End In Man's
Revenge In Suit: Bankruptcy
-Says Judge
“I CANNOT CONCEIVE any real reasons for bring- ing an action of this sort, except a spirit of revenge," said Mr. Justice Hilbery, in the King's Bench Division.
He awarded £75 damages to High Court. The misfortune is that Miss Edith Elizabeth King, aged it cannot be brought in the county court. A far greater misfortune is 26, of Jaffrey Road, Bromley, that it was ever brought at all. against Mr. George Cook, of "A Wound To Her Pride"" Wellington Road, Bromley, for breach of promise.
"It seems to me-although I sup- pose I ought not to say it-largely The case for Miss King was that incredible that a young woman, once she was engaged for three and a half she knows that her young man no years to Mr. Cook, an employee in longer loves her and that she does not co-operative store. They were towout, to marry him if he does not love he married last August, but, after her, can derive any solace from the she necilentally found a letter to him [recovery of monetary damages.
"If she dors not derive mental from another girl, he confessed that
his affections and changed. He had solder from the recovery of since married someone else.
.
damages of
Golfer Plays On 2,388 Courses
ALEX. II. FINDLEY seventy- twp-year-old Philadelphian who introduced golf to America, has one aimbition--to play on 2,400 courses before he dies
His total now is 2,388, and het shoots well below the 30's."
BABY Prunella
diets, keeps fit
PRUNELLA STACK, the girl who sets the standard of perfection in health and of beauty for the women Britain, is going to have a baby next month.
And Prunella, who has been called the Perfect Woman, is determined to have the Perfect Baby.
is
Prunella-her married name Lady David Douglas-Hamilton - Is the leader at the Women's League of Health and Beauty.
Now she is applying the ideals of the League to preparing for the birth of her baby,
תנה
"I keeping myself at for the event," she said: "That is the im- portant thing now,
"Naturally 1
am keeping up.
my exercises every day. Not strenuous athletic exercises like rucing and jumping, which, can be injurious to the expcelant mother, but the simple rhythmic exercises which the League of Henith and Beauty has always advocated.
I am "Diel too, Is Important. having lols of fruit and vegetables, but hardly any meat."
Lally
Husband Delighted
Douglas - Hamilton knows | how to bring up the perfeet baby, but she said modely:
עמן
"I would like to have practical|
discussing experience before theories
though I have many about the rearing of babies so that they will always be perfectly fit and
still finds time for the work that has made her famous. She thinks it essential for the ex- pectant mother to carry on with normal interests.
"I am continuing my regular duties
the Lengue," she said..
with the
"The
The Lengue, useful in peacetime, even more useful in time of war, and all our centres throughout - the country are forging ahead..
"My husband, naw 1 Pilot- Oficer with the RAF., is as delighted as am about the prospective event." Prunella
Stack's marclage in October, 1918, when she was 22, to Lord David Douglas-Hamilton was one of the biggest social occnsions in Sestland for many years."
A crowd of 20,000 cheered her usi she left Glasgow Cathedral-arm-in- arm with kilted Lord David,
Nazis "On Border
Of Malnutrition"
out of his pocket-every penny which I should have thought would have been a wound to her pride and A DAUGHTER was born re-f She does not know where he is, revolting to her to receive-they can cently to the wife of Lieut.- but she is allowed to write to him, be sought only, it seems to me out of Commander Allan Jackson, of using a prisoner of war" post en-
a motive either of gain or revenge, the submarine Undine, who is a velope bearing an address
Mr. Justice Hilbery said
said Miss
S King
claimed £75 damages in respect of prisoner in Germany.
gives no information.
which
Miss King said in evidence that Mr. Cook wrote asking for his freedom. She consulted a solicitor, and at me interview Mr. Cook sald he was will Ing to marry her, but she would have his body and not his soul. He would never love her and he refused to take articles which she bought for her Mrs. Jackson was told by the Ad- Three Umes a month Lleut.-Com- any vows in church.
trousseau and home. She had been miralty in January that her husbandmander Jackson Is allowed to reply.
missing. Mr. Justice Hilbery: Did you want carning 30s, a week, and if she spent was
Ten days later she} He is thirty-four years old, hos to marry him if he didn't love you?- all the money she said she had she heard that he was among those saved been In the Navy since he was thir Well, no.
must have exercised a grimmer paral-1 when the Undine was sunk in Hell teen. He has two other daughters,
than his experience in life goland Bight.
aged eight and five. Why did you consult a solicitor? | mony Did you want to force him to marry would lead him to expect. you, or did you want to pave the way
to damages thought I ought to
elalın damages.
Incredible
He, Too. Was A
House Painter
Mr. Justice Hilbery, giving judg- ment, said there was no reason to Under tralalug ni un initial flying suppose that Miss King was sub-wing in England is an aircraftman stuntinly in my worse position as io, before he settled down in the regards the marriage market than she | RAF., had had nearly a dozen Jobs,
vr was at the outset
He left school at Brantford, On- engagement, ber "She brings the action although sheterlo, at the age of 18, and became in tells me that once the fact was outtumn house painter at Detroit, tight- that Mr. Cook was in love with an- rope walker in a circus, coal miner other woman she did not want to and lorry driver in Texas.
From Texas the Judge continued,
he hitch-hiked and marry him,"
"The result will be that there must jumped trains 40 Ontario-2,800 be a bili of costs forced on him, und miles. From Montreal he worked his the total sum awarded against him passage in a entile boat to Glasgow, must be one that he cannot hope to Ile became assistant in a women's pay and which will, I suppose, end in shoe shop, but that Insted only three Kilk his bankruptcy.
days. Then he worked for a "But perhaps he has other means firm at Newcastle, and than his earnings. The melancholy when the war broke out, conclusion is that such an action In a few days he had joined the ought not really to be brought in the 'R.AF,
Was there
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