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EDWIN BRAMÁLI. 3) 16-year-old Eton boy of Symons Street, S.W., has had two pictures accepted by the Royal Academy.
Surprised but proud he went to Burlington. House to varnish them.
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Down Sacked A.F.S. Man Refused Farm
By an Agricultural Correspondent FARMERS are becoming alarmed at the shortage of labour to cope with the grow-more-food drive. It is now their most pressing problem.
The National Farmers' Union have received reports from many parts of the country showing how serious the situation is.
In Gloucestershire three farms]
are mentioned where there is one! man on 1,000 acres; a farm of
"I really sent them in for fun," 450 acres and no man; a farm of he said.
"Last Christmas I painted "The Ballet' as a holiday task. 1 made it up out of my head. It is a picture of a ballet as seen from a theatre box.
400 acres with one girl and no
mani.
Cheshire reports farms of 150 to only unc or two 200 heres with workers; Dorset reports an increasing
shortage.
"My other picture: 'Sloane Square," Regular farm workers are becom- is a view painted from my parenting fewer, not only because some of house. My mother suggested I should!
the 20-year-olds are called up, but
send them to the Academy.
"I study art at Eton under Mr.because many are attracted by the Wilfred Blunt, but I don't think higher wages for building camps. shall become a professional artist."
Nurse's Success
£4-A-Week At 17
Mr. S. T. Cowcher secrelury of the
Miss Molly Haigh, who has had a Gloucester N.F.U., quoted the case of pleture accepted, is a VAD. nurse nt the R.A.F. hospital nt Torquay. Shela boy receiving the standard “farm is a native of Buckinghamshire and wage of £1 per week who left to until the war was a professional artist works on a neighbouring aerodrome in London.
at 55s.; of another boy of 17 receiving
"This was the only pleture I sub- nitted and it was the first time that 30s, who was given work by a Gov- I had offered one to the Academy.erament contractor at £4 per week.
It Is the still-life group," she said.
Preparing For Victory Dance
Farmers realise that stilled now agricultural workers cannot be drop- ped into their ups, they are even prepared to see agriculture, in com-j men with all other industries, maice)
contribution 10 the Oghting
some forces,
drain
of skilled
LONDON, (UP).--One village But they are deeply disturbedi in England is ready to hold its about this steady Victory dance at an hour's no-farm hands who are tempted away tice
by wages agriculture could
not
The village hall is hooked, the possibly offer at present price levels. band warned lo nitend at short holike, the ticicets are printed, and the catering committee. has its orders to go abead immediately news of peace: reacles Constable Frank Lee at the -pole station.
For Byfield village, Northampton- shire, has twice been let down. At the jubilee celebration of George V. and Quecu Mary, and at the Coronation of the present King and Queen, every hull and band had been booked up and Byfield was left high and dry with no celebrations.
H does not intend a repeat of this when peace celebrations start up.
VATICAN PAPER STOPS
Rome, June 13.
The Popolo di Roma reports that the Osservatore Reineno, the Vatican paper, has suspended publication for ine period of the war and that the archives of the French Embassy and British Legation in the Holy See have been brought to Vatican City. It expected that the British
This Harvard Univómity's new coronagraph, resembling anti-aircraft gun, to be set up in Colorado Rocky Mountains to study solar corona in effort to predict magnetic storms. --Professor-Menzol adjusts it.
SOVIET STILL SILENT
Moscow, June 13. The Soviet attitude towards. Italy the Press is still officially unknown Minister, is silent, though publishing all the Mr. F. Charles-Roux, will reside in belligerent communiques. Censorship the Vatican for the duration of the continues to forbid comment. United war.-United Press
Press.
KOVNO RESIGNATIONS
Kovno, June 13.
The resignations of the Minister of Interior, General Kazys Skutsan, and the Chief of the State Police, M.
-United PrC88, Augurtinius Povilaitis, are announced.
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LONDON, (UP)—A post-war. PARLIAMENT is to hear
White recognizing that nothing about Mr. John Gibson, 44-year-United States of England" has concrete can be done until after the old auxiliary fireman, of Middles-been proposed by competent war, the planning authorities are,
Parliament immediate refusing to salute officers. act the ever-increasing concen- ly so that us many preliminaries as brough, who was dismissed for planning authorities to counter-coded by ryan at last, be
low was pointed out that a would have to be passed prohibiting dustries from locuting in London unless they could prove the necessity for doing so.
Mr. Kingsley Griffith, Liberal M.P.tration of the country's popula-Lossible may be disposed of for Middlebrough West, has promised tion in and near London.. to question the Parliamentary Secre-
Under the suggested programme, the tary of the Home Office.
country would be divided into ten re- Mr. Gibson, who served nearly four gional breus, similar to the states of years in the Royal Field Artillery if the United States of America. Ench the last war. WAK n volunteer in
Advocates of the plan warned that the present tendency to concentrate
from the Industry around London is dangerous military well as the social and healt
health standpoints." Concentration of population, let
industry,
The
Middlesbrough A.F.S. until the out-region would have a capital, such as break of the war, and he was then London, Blemingham, Bristol, Liver taken on the full-time paid strength. pool, Manchester, Newcastle, Edin-
burgh and Glasgow.
leaves an obvious He says that when he refused to obey the Instruction to salute officers In support of this proposal, plun-target for
enemy bombers," he was told to think it over, and that ning authorliles say that it is a recog- transport problem and the necessity another man who would not salute nized fact that there always is a drift for work under crowded conditions would be cased under the at population to a big centre in this also had had to leave.
London-but it ten regional proposed plan it is claimed. Mr. Gibson replied that he was not capitals were set up and each pro- Industrialists would benefit, in that leaving, and that he was not going perly developed, then this drift would they would not be forced to pay to zalute, When he persisted in his be spread over the whole country. such high rentals as are demanded attitude an officer vald at another The problem first was raised by the in the London aren. Interview, "Then I will have to suck Royal Commission on the Distribu- Some observers have suggested
tion of the Industrial Population, that a ministry of reconstruction established immediately Mr. Gibson holds that the A.F.S. Is which reported that if the present should be
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