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May 15, 1940.
DONALD DUCK
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Casualty list of pets is WITH THE already up to 1,000,000
AND NOT ONE OF THEM NEED HAVE BEEN DESTROYED
SO great has been the number of pets destroyed in Britain since the outbreak of war that the sale of dog licences has now fallen heavily.
One post office in Central London reports that 25 per cent. fewer licences have been taken out.
Experts say that nearly 1,000,- 000 dogs and cats were destroyed in the early part of the war.
"There was no need for any of them to go," Colone! Robert Storrey, chief of the National A.R.P. Animals Committee, told a reporter..
"The scevel burial ground was just by the mile of recent borings for an
underground railway extension. We were thus able to run trucks there.
hope I never see anything like It again. There were dogs and cats of every size and shape. Alsutions
Scotties, terriers hardly a breed you could think of.
"Many of the animals" had ob viously had first-class pedigree and were very valuable. "What made it so dreadful that it was unnecessary.
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"One night last September I saw pets in war time. It has 700 veterin-
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hardened can't destroy your pets."
mid. "Il: upset even veterinary surgeons.
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"As soon as war was declared! animal) queues clinics all over London and in otherį big towns.
"Yards became so full of animals) which had been destroyed that they could hold no more.
"We were fortunate in finding some land under reclamation in the East End of London, and this site we chose for the greatest single burial of dead pels any one has ever seen.
Death kiss girl is 'on the spot'.
NEW YORK.
BEAUTIFUL Ethel Mittleman, "gangster's moll with a kiss of death," is to-day the central figure of —"Ambulances.......and vans were America's greatest under-world drama.
sent to clinkes all over London to collect them.
WIFE'S LETTER
TO HITLER
MRS. LEMMENS, whose fur- band drove the car in which Captain Stevens and Mr. Payne- Best were kidnapped by Ger-
at Venlo, Holland, last. November, has received a reply to a letter she sent to Hitler.
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But the sill has no news of her husband..
The reply is from the Reich Chancellery, saying that her Jetter has been forwarded to the Gestapo.
There is no confirmation at The Hague of rumours that the two Britum are 2002 brought up for trial.
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She is held on £12,500 bail to answer questions about her latest lover, Pittsburg Phil Strauss, named as chief assassin of the Brooklyn "cash-and-bury" syndicate, who sought to put murder on a big business basis.
To-day the District Attorney refused a writ of habeas corpus "The designed to free Ethel. girl is on the spot," he said. "She will almost certainly be killed to ensure her silence, if she leaves jail.” ~
Pitsburg Phil, the man of whem It is said, "He would rather kill than drink an ice-cream soda," lavished inoney on Ethel.
She was wearing several of his dla- gifts-three diamond rings, a mond bracelet and a fur cont-when she was picked up by the pullee.
In a vault to which the had the key was more jewellery, believed to be part of the loot of a £25,000 rob- bery in Florida.
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She was only seventeen when the first man died from love of her. He. was Hymi Miller, and was killed in a fight to retain his right as her protector.
The next victim of her fatal charm was Robert Furer. He was killed by Solomon Goldstein for, "insulting Miss Miltleman."
Goldstein's gallantry, however, turned to hate when Ethel jilted him. His
eritidsms of the beautiful moll were overheard by Pilisburg Phil, her latest conquest,
Goldstein was'savagely beaten up by the gunman and later was murdered in an up-state New York
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Every day brings new and tver more sensational revelations of the wholesale murder, racket organises~j by the cash-and-bury syndicate.
According to "Kid Twist" Reles who has turned State's evidence to save himself from the cicctrle chair, the syndicate carried out 16 murders as the 20 In other States as well assassinations in Brooklyn last year. Pittsburg Ph is also in jail, but he is keeping the underworld code of silence,
Her Dog Had a Ration Book
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Here is a war-time version of "Old Mother Hubbard, with a cup- board zohich the "poor dog" had to help to replenish-
For four weeks a cocker-spanie dog had a ration card, while hl mistress obtained butter and sugar with the coupons.
TROOPS
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THIS picture is of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps, which have now taken their place as a working unit of the B.E.F.
They are a Mule Transport company and are engaged in the carrying supplies for Army.
A cigarette with members of the B.E.F.
UNCLE IS IN HONGKONG
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Jeanno When the woman, Mrs. Wilson, of Cross Collyer Street, Bel- fast, was, at the local court, fined'
J. H. Forbas, 205. for wrongfully, obisining the rations, a food officer sold the sus- plelons were aroused. concerning a captain of the submarino Spoor- ration book in the name of "Dora fish, which torpedoed the Nazi Wilson
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Most "Distinguished Gathering" in History MANY FAMOUS NAMES IN DIVORCE LISTS
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FAMOUS people crowded into the Divorce Court in London last month to tell the Judges the stories of their shattered romances.
They helped make the divorce list at the Easter sit-- tings, the most distinguished in history.`-
In five weeks, the five Judges were expected to solve the matrimonial tangles of 1,445 couples.
There will be little difficulty in 706 cases. For these will be undefended-none_of_the_husbands and wives against whom actions are being brought will deny the allegations.
The undefended list also included 'the petition of Captain David Margesson, Chief Government Whip and the "power behind the throne" in the Conservative Party.
Mrs. Frances Margesson is a wealthy American. They have been married about twenty-four years and have one son and two daughters.
Captain Margesson has been Parliamentary Secretary to the He has been Conservative Treasury, and Chief Whip since 1931. Member for Rugby since 1924,before that representing the. Upton division of West Ham.
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HOME RACING PLANS
London, May 14. The Jockey Club and National Hunt Committee announce that race
Roth Sir Malceim Campbell and his wife, Lady Dorothy Evelyn Campbell, are asking for a divorce.
The famous racing motorist mor- ried In 1920, when he was an un- known trler on the racing tracks.
A marriage that was "front page newa" in July last year comes bo- fore the Judge.
It is that of the Earl of Craven and Mas Irene Morrick, daughter of the late Mrs Kate Meyrick, once London's night-club "queen." Their marriage was kept secret for three months.-----
The young carl-he was born in decree of asking for a 1917-s nullity. The Countess of Craven has a cross-petition for the restitution of conjugal rights.
In January this year, the Countess of Craven announced that she had given birth to a daughter.
Another contested divorco suit la that brought by Viscount Long of Wraxall. Lady Long is defending the suit.
They were married in 1933, when Lady Long was nineteen years old. She is a granddaughter of the Earl of Wemyss
Sir Henry John Delves Brough- ton, the eleventh baronat, vill not contest the action witich is being brought by his wife, Lady Vern Edyth Broughton, whom he mar- rled twenty-five years ago.
Lady Broughton is the doughter of Boscawen T. Grinth-Boscawen, of Trovalyn Hall, Rossott, Denbigh- shire,
Another divorce action which will not be defended is that by Mra, Gir- Smirke agatrist her husband, Charles Smirite the jockey who is thirty-three.
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They were married in August, 1038. Mrs. Smirko, who 'ls Tommy Dundas, the crooner in Harry Roy's wife of band, was formerly the Jack Barker, the radio comedian Smirke has also been married be- his first fore. His marriage with wite was annulled in 1937.
Smirke 'one of our best-known won the Derby Jockeys, having twice-in-throg-years, on_Windsor Lad In 1934 and on Mahmond in 1930.
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Lady Kathleen Fetherston-Godley is now bringing on cellon for divorce.
married twenty years ago,
The German Press has started aing will be resumed in Manchester against her husband, whom she pocket battleship Admiral big advertising campaign to recomand Lanark on May 18-Reuter. While Mrs. Wilson was being Schoor, is a nephew of Wing- merd wooden shoes as the questioned the dog, jumped up, and Commander A.H.S, Stoofe-Par- fashion novelty of 1010." Soon, it is sha exclaimed, "Get down, Don."
She then admitted-that-tho- ralios kins, the A.R.P. Director in stated, "the happy clatter book referred to the dog, and that Hongkang. aho wanted extra butter and sugar
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in Hongkong last work,
This photograph was received handleraft has not died out and that Leather is strictly rationed in Garam also been transferred from five-
reserve list of actions wlanding over to the ordinary defended lit.
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