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'Don't fight' teaching to boys
at school alleged
PARENTS ASK FOR INQUIRY
THE QUEEN Inspecting slippers during her visit to the Central Hospital Supply Service depet in 5.E. London,
500,000 Cigarettes For Troops Theft Case
THE alleged theft of 500,000 cigarettes intended for the | troops in France was mentioned at North London Police Court recently.
John Henry Kelly, aged twenty- nine, motor haulage contractor, of Cheshire-street, Bethnal, Green, E., was remanded on ball,
He was accused of being concerned with two men, not in, custody; in stealing eighteen wooden cases, con- taining cigarettes, value £1,700, property of Carreras, Lid., from a motor-lorry al Packington-street,} Islington.
sir.
AN INQUIRY is being demanded into alleged Com-. munistic teaching at Hamilton (Lanarkshire) Academy, one of the most famous schools in Scotland.
Boys there are alleged to have
DECISION IN been told by members of the
EVACUEES TEST CASE
summons
teaching staff that they should be conscientious objectors.
The reason said to have been given was that "this was the wrong kind of war."
".
One parent with three sons at the
EAST NORTON (Leicester- nendemy sald to a reporter recently: "My eldest boy due to leave soon shire) magistrates recently dis- come back recently and asked me. missed, under the Probation of I thought he should be a conchic. Offenders Act,
"I asked why. He replied that a against Mrs. Phyllis Toone, of that they should not fight in this teacher had told a number of boys Billesdon, alleging that she re-war and that they should be con- fused to accommodate two evacuees, thereby failing to com- ply with the billeting notice.
chles.
"If the proposed Inquiry dars not take place or the matter is not put right I, shall remove my sons from the school,"
It had been sent back by the. High Court, following an uppeal against
A mother with two daughters and the magistrates' decision. In dismiss ing the summons on the grounds that son said: "Frequently my children a householder was entitled to appeal, ave come home and said that this, to a billeting tribunal before accept-country would be a happier place if ing a billeting notice.
have
11 were
governed like Russia," Bailie D. C. Orr is responsible for
The High Court ruling was that the magistrates were wrong and that the demand for an inquiry. He has notice became operative clerk a requisition form signed by handed to the Lanarkshire County:
twenty-six members calling a specialį
ก
Lively it was served.
The case was regarded as a test meeting of the county education nu-
an the billeting notice.
Mrs. Toone stated that she had! had two ofler evacuees and
thority.
bought them extra food and cloth Baby Film Ruling
Ing.
Despite all her efforts, their parents Leicester Watch Committce sare- had come down from London one tioned recently the showing of the Sunday and taken them away. film, "The Birth of a Baby" to mixed
"I told the billeting officer,' she audiences over the age of 18. sald, "that there appears to be one The im deals with the whole sub- low for the parents and one for theffect of maternity, and includes shota householder."
Tot a birth.
MOTHER'S CRY WHEN JAILED
'What Will My Children
And Sick Husband Do?"
“OH MY GOD! My husband and children, what will they do?" ́ cried a woman who was carried from the "Is this the case in which it is dock at Middlesex Sessions recently. She had been sen-
alleged......Uhat some people...stolc.. cigarettes which were to be sent to the troops?" asked the magiş- traie, Mr. Basil Watson, K.C.
Detective Sergeant Glunders: Yes,
The magistrate: A large consign- ment of cigarettes going to France?
"Yes, sir, over half a million," was the reply. "A lorry-load was stolen und practically the whole of the property was found in this man's possession."
150-Guinea Operation 'Reasonable'
tenced to six months' hard labour.
"She should not go to prison;
I would sooner go myself," de-
Cann
clared her counsel, Mr. C. G. du SERVANT
The woman was Mrs. Winifred Margaret Munn, aged 33, of Holliford- road, Sunbury-on-Thames.
She was found guilty of trying to oblain £310 insurance last July by falsely representing that Jewellery. had been stolen from her house,
Ono Long Sacrifice
GIRL IS NOW LADY FAGGE
SIR JOHN FAGGE, the Mr. Du Cann sald Mrs. Mann's has twenty nine year old farm band was paralysed. She had twɔ young children, and was expecting a third.
Day of National Prayer.- The King, with the Dean of Westminster, leaving the Abbey after the service.
A KICK SAVED
HIS LIFE
HANGING head downward from a blazing R.A.F. plans over Rotterdam -his parachute caught in the escape Trap vergeant observer was 'saved. by the pilot kicking him free.
When his parachute Anally opened and slowed up his fall, the observer was only 30 feet from the ground.
"We had attacked a Junkers 52 when our gunner reported that a Messerschmitt 110 war on our tall," he said..
"Incendiary bullets hit our machine and set the cabin on fire..
"I opened the escape hatch and went out backwards, but my para- chute caught on the hatch opening.
"I hung with my head underneath the minchine.
-
"Suddenly the parachute became loose. The pilot had kicked it clear. "My parachute opened with about 30 feet to spare, and I landed in, u field."
No-Petrol Cars Arrive
MANY
motor vehicles are Inbourer baronet, and Miss Ivy being converted to run on elec Frier, who is twenty-seven, were tricity. They will save the "This woman's life is one long self-married recently in the village country petrol. Encrifice to her husband and her child-church at Newington, Kent. By the end of 1040 there will be reu," Mr. Du Cann added.
Vans Sir John Inherited his life from 14,500 electric commercial
and: keeping paying guests.
She was maintaining the family by uncle in America a few weeks ago.
lorries on Britain's ronds.
Using petrol, they would cousunie 8,000,000 gallons a year.
A SURGEON'S charge of 150 guineas for an operation and
The prosecution alleged that a ring altention was held at Westmins- and watch which had been reported ter County Court recently to as stolen were offered in pawn at have been reasonable.
Judgment with costs was given for Dr. A. A. Loeser, of Devonshire- place, W., for £44, balance of alleged agreed fees for an operation, against Mr. Ossit Soldhoust, director of the Salisbury Mining Trust, living at Knightsbridge, S.W.
Colchester.
"Found In Bush"
The defence was that in September
Most of the village turned out
to see the bride, a domestle ser- vaul, feave the church on the arm
of her bridegroom as Lady Farre member of a family which
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has nearly a whole page devoted to its history in Debrett. Twenty of the Faversham AFS,
guard of
Three thousand new electric vehicles have been ordered from the tent manufacturing firms since the start of the war.
Municipal authorities are adopting
the ring and watch were found in a of which the bridegroom is a volun-them on a wide scale. Chain stores, lavender bush at Mrs. Mann's house.tary member, formed II
Mrs. Mann said it was on the Bug-honour outside the church. gestion of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Dorothy Brown, wife of the captain
of Sudbury, Suffolk, Bre brigade,
that
Week's Leavo
dairies and bakeries have also ordered Ulem.
Cost of converting a motor vehicle from petrol to electricity on the bat-
Sir John and Lady Fagge have been tery principle is initially dear, £200 the articles were offered in pawn. engaged for four years, and two ac to £300 in the case of commercial
The bride's mother told the Sun. costs are much lower.
Mr. C. Ryder Richardson (for Dr. Looser) said that the doctor, a physi clan and surgeon "of international re-
Sir Reginald Coventry, KC., de-three nights a week Sir John cycled vans, but the life of the vehicle is prolonged threefold and running pate," agreed with Mr. Soldhoost to tient his daughter, Mrs. Gafarl, whputy chairman, sald the Bench re-fifteen miles to see her, ind travelled by air from Fersin ucognised that Mrs. Mann had a sick her doctor's advice to have her baby husband, and that others ought to be day Express: "They have a lovely
In the dock with her.
littlo house In Whitstable-rond, Had she innden dean breast of Faversham, and Ivy has been spen Serious Condition
when asked to plead it would haveing her spare time getting it ready since she left her inst situation n been easier to be merciful.
fortnight ago."
here.
She was in such a serious condition that an operation had to be performed at the birth.
Dr. Loeser charged 30 guineas for FARM HANDS
prenatal attendance, and 150 guineas
for the operation and post-natal care and attention.
Mr. Soldhoost gave the doctor n cheque for £151, and had refused to pay the balance.
Judge Austin Jones said Mr. Sold lostul conceded that the operation was an exceedingly difficult one, ex- tremely well performed.
CRITICAL OF
'CONCHIES
The cost of the current is the equivalent to peiral at 5d, a gallon. About £1 a week is the saving on running a light van on electricity. Electric cars are recharged after forty miles by leaving them thirty
Sir John has been giving a week's overnight in the garage plugged to Heave by his employer, Mr. T. J. the mains through charging batteries. It a motorist ran dry he could leave Bones, of Homestall Farm, Favers- ham, and he and his bride are spent his electric car, go for a walk and.
return 'in half an hour to find that the ing their honeymoon in London,
Lady Fagge intends to use her batteries had suficiently recharged
emselves to get him home. “
title.
GOVERNOR'S STAFF
MAH JONG AND
BRIDGE
The Ludies Guild of Kowloon
Resentment against being asked to Capt. S. H, Batty-Smith, who hns! work with conscientious objectors been absent from the Colony on duty, Union Church held a successful Mah felt by many farm labourers,
de returned to Government House on Jong and Bridge Drive on Wednesday. At the conclusion the PRIZE · DISTRIBUTION
clared a speaker at the annual con- June 17. On June 19, Mr. 1. C. Fay afternoon.
Principal prizes were distributed by Mrs. R. ference of the Agricultural Workers' relinquished his duties
Alde-de-Camp to tie Excellency the McIntyre. The following were prize- Union. The annual prize distribution at
Acting Governor, and his place was winners!
Mah Mr. W. Holmes, general 'secretary taken by Capt. Balty-Smith, the Diocesan Boys' School will take
Jong fall clear game)-1. place on Friday, July 5, at 5.30 p.m. of the union, who is also chairman Mr. C. Treverton, Erivate Secret Mrs. Atmstrong, 2, Mrs Fenton HE. the Commander-in-Chief, Ad- } of the T.U.C.,, said he hoped agri-{ary to Ilis Excellency the Acting Consolation, Ars, Brodie, Mah Jong' miral ST Percy Noble, and~Lagy "cunturg workers would not act Governor, left the Colony on June 18 (Chinese gume) ---Man: Melwate Noble have kindly consented to be against men with real moral objeɛ-or three weeks focal lenve In Bridge-1, Mrs. Rowe, Consolation,
tions to taking human life..)
Monila.
Mrs: Musort..
present.