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FOUND FATHER (NEARLY BLIND) AFTER 16 YEARS
PRIVATE SAMUEL HAILEY, the Canadian soldier who has not seen his English family for sixteen years, found his father recently.
But his father could not see him. He is almost blind.
"I could only see Sam's face by putting my own six. inches from his," he sak
Then
I recognised his curls. When he was a baby they were a snow-white mass."
Mr. Matthew Halley ("Nobby" to his friends), of Livonia-street, Soho, was overjoyed to be with his son again. The reunion was made posal-
by the
the London "Dally Herold." Privale Halley, has spent all his leave since he came to England in
I trying to find his relatives.
ble
I took him to Somerset House and traced his birthplace.
Last night I had the sailsfaction of! secing him celebrating with his father, his brother, Matthew, off Hendon, N.W., and his sister, Mrs. Sweeney, of Cumden Town,
Samuel has been given extra leave, until Saturday to get to know his family again.
Another sister, Mrs. Annle Curtain,
is too dangerously in Chelsea
Hospital to be told the news,
WE BUY
Friday
THEY RISK THEIR
LIVES ON SHORE
KNOWN accurately, if un
romantically, as the Render- ing Safe of Miyes Squad, these men of the Royal Navy risk their lives almost daily on shore.
Above, you see them rolling a mine to a spot where it can be blown up. On the right, they are taking of the base-plate of a mine, and (below) cutting the awlich wires on the bare-plate,
BOYS OF
RAID
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 17, 1940.
German Girl Saved From Nazi Clutches
GESTAPO ROBBED BY "PIMPERNEL"
17
BRITAIN
GOERING is sending
7,000 U.S. boys to fly over the British
PLANES
{coast.
So many of his raiders have
been shot down that he is not BRITAIN'S order of war-sending his experienced pilots plancs front the United States is now to face British fighters. estimated to amount to between 7,000 and 10,000.
Training
Death Of A Polish Noble
Shot In Market
TILE Polls Ministry of Informa Hon gives the following details of the execution of Count Meezy-
Chpalowski, brother of
Polish Arabassador
This number, with accessories, will The youth of the flyers pleked up
slaw £200,000,000 from the sea recently has impressed almost exhaust which, it is stated, Britain is to spend the British nutherllics.
the
former France.
to
at
on acroplanes in the United States. Some them are boys of 17.
Flights to Britain are now, appar-: The execution took place Some of the machines may be flown
aver,
but most will be sent ently, to be regarded as "training Kosciany in western Poland, a town ready for assembling, and will be episodes,"
of some 10,000 inhabitants, large flying within a week of their arrival "Some of you boys will enter the numbers of whom were compelled to and with steely witness German Justice" being done In this country.
bombing service, All the armaments of the planes nerves break through the strong de to one of their countrymen. are being fited in England, as Bri- fence to drop your terrible load on The Count knelt in the market tish guns are preferred to American; the enemy," Gdering told flying square, said a prayer, and after mak-
Duplik in his Berlin speech laing the sign of the Cross in the direc
tion of the crowd shouted, "Long live Poland, France and England," before falling under the bullets of the firing
ones.
Mr. Louis Johnson, United States Wednesday. Assistant Secretary for War, says the capacity of the country's aircraft in- dustry is now estimated at more than
17,500 machines a yeur.
Australia To Spend
"Old At Twenty"
over have had experience of the
Few of the pilots he is sending, squad.
Spanish and Polish wars. They have| joined the air force since the out- break of the present war.
Men over 20 in the prison camps
£25,000,000 In Air in Britain are regarded as "elderly."
Australia is to spend £25,000,000| in the next two and a half years on plane construction and maintenance as her part of the Empire air scheme. The new Australian Minister of Supply Sir Frederick Stewart, an- nounced that in Sydney, Now South Wales.
SWIM AMONG SHARKS
BIMINI (Bahamas). Paul Chotteau, the French long tilstance swimmer, left here at 8.7 "Britain will supply a large num- this morning in an attempt to swim ber of bombers," Sir Frederick said, the 71 miles across the Florida Stralt "and millions are being spent on to West Palm Beach.
workshops to maintain 3,000 planes. He is being escorted by two men; "More than 1,000 large planes are in rowing boats to ward off sharks.
of liquid food.
M. Madalinski, another Pole of ancient lineage, died equally brave- 17. Tearing his shirt open he shouted to his executioneri, "Afm well at the heart. No Madalinski ever died like, a dog. Long live Poland.”
Polcs Other leading
executed within the last fortnight are:-M. Fenrych, from Puliszki: Count W. Koscleisiti, from Sepna; M. Malleki, from Kowanty; Father K. Smorawski, from Wronezyn; and M. Taczakowski. a landowner from Wilczyn.
U.S. EXPANSION
to be kept in operation-United The boats are also carrying a supply BILL ATTACKED
Press.
"The Madonna
IS
on
the
Girl dole
"THE 'Madonna Girl”Britain's best-known”artists” model —is in the 'dole. -
For the first time for nearly ten years, the Royal Academy, which opened on May 6, opened without the face of the Madonna Girl-Marguerite, Sallo,
While artista were carrying their paintings into Burlington House for consideration by the Hanging Committee, Marguerite said:
When the war broke out, my commissions vanished. I became a full-time A:R.P. worker, but that came to an end when the authorities cut down the paid staff.
\\"]f the Academy doesn't bring back my modelling career to normal, I have to say good-bye to Chelsea and start over again, as an office worker after ten years, ke
**Miss Ballo has sent a painting of her own to the Academy. For years she has nursed an ambition to achieve fame as an
Tokyo, May 15.
A Japanese naval spokesman, Ad- mirai Kanazawa, attacked the Ameri- can naval expansion bill, declaring it was intended for offence, Japan would act accordingly, he warned. The East Indies question had been closed diplomatically, he ld, by assurances from Britain, France, America and the Netherlands that they would maintain the status quo.
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The Marriage Has Been_Arranged.
Thrice She Said "No," And Then-
By POP WRIGHT- MR. J. D. HOWES, sturdy young technical engineer and sportsman, of Black- heath, S.E., has just been revealed to me as the hero of an adventure in Germany which would rival a chapter of the "Scarlet Pimpernel.”
On the eve of the outbreak of] war he entered Germany without a visa, tricked the Nazis by his per- fect German accent and rescued a German girl from a concentration camp. She is now living in freedom in Switzerland.
For many years Mr. Howes had spent, his holidays in Germany. Ho became friendly with a family who Ilved in the Heidelberg district.
The father, since dead, was a rich business man and part-owner of an anti-Hitler newspaper.
Mr. Howes as usual visited · Ger- mony in Easter last year. He found that his friends had vanished from their home.
•
They Included Loita
Rhacme
aged twenty-four, who was mar- ried to a young German soldier. People who knew the family were unwilling to talk to Mr. Howes about the disappearance of the family. But he discovered that they had been sent to concentration camps,
Costapo Agents
that Gestapo agents had "found
and they had transferred
money Jewels to Switzerland against the Ilitter-laws.
Mr. Howes spent his holiday in tracing Lotta. He found that she had been taken to a camp in the mountains neur the Swiss frontler. He was permitted to visit her for quarter of an hour. She was herded in the camp with women of all ages. state of misery and Lolla was in despair. She implored Mr. Howes to visit her again and to take her poison with which she could end her life. Не Mr. Howes went to Holland. THREE times Pilot Offi-[had friends at Rotterdam whom he cer Norman ("Tiny") Wil- took into his liams proposed to Miss ranged with the captain of a coal
plying Helen Trevelyan, actress a deck land.
He dressed in dirty overalis. At and authoress. And three
Essen he left the boat, bought new:
13 German clothes and posed as times he was rejected.
student on holiday. He engaged a fast car and crossed Germany without arousing suspicion anywhere.
But after the third rejection she relented, and put a notice in a newspaper saying a marriage had been arranged between them.
boat
confidence. They
to Essen to take him as
Mr. Howes rented rooms at a vil- luge within an easy, enr ride of the
camp,-
And so on April 13, "their lucky During the subsequent week nt day," they were married at St. different was he bought a woman's Martin-in-the-Fields by the Rev. Pathat, dress and shoes, a supply of McCormick.
sausages and 2 small bottle of brandytinous country between He also made a survey of the Germany: and Switzerland.
Saturday came. He drove the car woods a mile Into a road among from the camp, which he then ap- proached on foot.
He Saw--Her At Inst he saw Lotta,
frequently excl
exchanging congratula understood.
She saw
She wandered unobserved towards
Both Hated Marriage Seven years ago Miss Trevelyas, who is the daughter of the late W. Trevelyan - Thompson, M.P. for Middlesbrough for 10 years, wrote an article in a newspaper saying how she hated marriage. Her husband-to-be then-living-in-South-Africa,-wrote promptly saying he heartily agreed.
For seven years they corresponded,, him. He gave her a signal which she tions that
that they had escaped the matrimonial snare.
the woods. Then she ran to the spot Several weeks ago he came to where. Mr. Howes was waiting England to join the RA.F. and all years of discretion could not his prevent him from proposing to the woman to whom he had expounded the
of married He.
He dedded that within the next would have been married hour or two the roads leading to the They before, but the bride has had Ger-Swiss frontier would be watched for man measles. Now the wedding will the runway. So he drove a hun- take place during 24 hours leave dred miles into Germany to a village granted to the bridegroom.
rallway station, two tickets to a station
There he parked the car and took near the Swiss frontler...
folly
RED CROSS UNIT BOMBED
Parls, May 16.
Flye ambulances belonging to the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps on the Westem Front have been bombed and machine-gunned, according to Bernhard Rogner, & member of the corps. Two cars were destroyed,
o. Phy
clothing
the reached
саг. Lotta
changed into the hat and
which Mr. Howes had brought in the car.
Luck was still with them. met nobody.
They
They crossed the Swiss frontier near midday on the Sunday.
Mr. Howes returned home by way of France.
And in his own words, his first All prominently displayed Ameri-week back at work in a Woolwich can flags and Red Cross signs, One engineeri office was the dullest he volunteer is missing.-Reuter.
had ever known.
Hollywood's -
Worst
Joke Revealed
won
sent husband of Joan Blondell. His
he gone previous marriage, before
im fame, ended in divorce.
NEW YORK. HOLLYWOOD has crusading. It is making its "first screen sermon against the easy divorce evil."
Clergymen and social leaders have been naked to give it their blessing.'
Now comes the wry laugh.
It was discovered that this great upilft film, piquantly entitled, Want a Divorce," is being acted, produced
-directed nimbat entirely by men and women who have themselves been the
through the 'divorce courts,
..."
Film officials blushed when it was pointed out how many connected with "I Want a Divorce" had at some time or other been freed by easy divorce themselves, al
And one player, Gloria Dickson, -now separated from her husband, saya 'she 'expects to get a divorce when the anti-divorco' picturo: is. Cover. D
4 FRANK FAY.--Divorced by Bar- bara Stanwyck, who alleged he once tried to throw her into a swimming pool:
CONRAD NAGEL-His‹ marriage with a Los Angeles, society woman: was ended by divorce. ExceptionAged–Six-
Producer: GEORGE: ARTHUR. Divorced once,
Director RALPH
Divorced once.
MURPHY.
three
The story of the anti-divorce film
ww written by Adela Rogers St. John, whose record divorces Even the film's press agent, Jean Bosquet,
has one divorce to hle cred
・Aming...ĩ Che few without divorce is actor Micker Kuhn. Mickey is aged six.
* Defending the cast of his master- Here's the record of some of the piece, Producer Arthur said: "The others
marital status of the players, may Leading lady JOAN-BLONDELL seem peculiar in this pleture, but you divorced photographer Georgo Burnies; | must admit we have a cast óf experi- complaining that he "frightened her once. - Wich they say anything about sto desih" By the way he drove a cat, divorce," they know what they're
Leading man DICK POWELL, pre- | talklog about.
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