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---TENDER LITTLE---
July 18, 1940.
By Walt Disney
--EAGLE!
DONALD
HOW Y CAN
WE DON'T SEE
HUNT
WITH THAT
THING!
DUCK
YEAH, WELL, THEY BEEN
HUNTIN' WITH FALCONS FOR CENTURIES! IT'S
SIMPLE SET EM-
--FREE, LIKE? THIS NOW, IN A MINUTE HE'LL BE BACK ON
MY ARM WITH A---
-NICE FAT RABBIT, OR. A PLUMP. LITTLE PARTRIDGE
OR A---
Cope, 1940) Wal Davey Productions
Not Quins, Sailors Must
.4
But Twins, Stop Dancing
At 10.45 P.M.
Protests
Father
MAGISTRATES at Rochester (Kent)
ELSAYED HAMADA__"suburb" of the sailors' home port of GEHESSA, Egyptian em- Chatham-have reimposed a 10.45 p.m. ployce in a small Cairo busi- ness, was the father of six curfew on dancing. children,
Now he is the father of 11-07
is it eight?
Elsayed set out to seek a mid- wife. Together they hurried back to Elsayed's wife.
A few hours later the whole dis-i trlet was agog with the news that
Elsayed was the father of the world's second surviving set of quins. And.
A lieutenant-commander applied for an exten- sion to 11.45 so that "wives and sweethearts of ratings can enjoy themselves with,their men."
He pointed out that many of the sailors could not get away until 8.30, and that a dance ending at 10.45 would be useless,
When he inquired if he could ask why the extension could not be granted the magistrates' lile the Dionne quins, they were said clerk replied: "You must not ask that." to be all girls,
Lust night Elsayed stood. a-pro- The 10.45 p.m, curfew was imposed at the testing father, on the steps of his beginning of the war. home vainly trying to persuade a
cheering crowd to go home,
by an hour.
"Not Quins," he shouted, "Twina!”
It was recently extended
"Eye-witnesses," belleved to in- extensions to midnight and 1 a.m. for Chatham clude the midwife, testified that Elsayed's wife had given birth to and Gillingham.
At Chatham the magistrates have granted
quins.
Indians Guard Egypt RADIO
Many Indian Regiments are in training in the
But the harassed father insisted Alderman Sir Edward Willis presided at Desert, which includes trench digging, erecting that there were only two "Quite a meeting of the Rochester magistrates. He is barbed entanglements, the use of the Bren gun
enough," to know.
"All
he declared. And he ought ninety.
h," said the superstitious, "the poor man is afraid of the Evil Eye."
Local citizens are annoyed at what
they call "grandfatherly adminis- tration.' The matter will probably
So there it is. Coiro says Elsayed be raised at the next meeting of the has quins. Elsayed says twins.
If the Calro bables are a set of Quins they are the forty-seventh to be recorded. Arturo Guzzani, autho rity on births, toys twins occur once in 87 births, triplets once in 7,103,
council.
The Patience
quadruplets once in 757,000. He of John
doesn't mention quintuplets. They
are too rare,
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FAR EAST DISCUSSION
London, July 17.
Wants Rise, Says "I
Can Wait
TAKE, a lesson in the gentle art of patience from 90-year-old John Reed, rate collector for Wootton Court- ¡ney. He applied to the Williton (Somerset) Rural Council for an increase in salary.
He told a reporter: "I hope those gentlemen up at Williton give me that rise.
"But if they don't give it to me this year they, may next—or the year after-or when I am a hundred.
"I can wait!"
It was authoritatively learned to- day that the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, For 62 years John has been col- had detailed conversation concern-lecting rates for the WBliton Counell ing the Far East with the Soviet and the thought of having to retire Ambassador, M. Maisky, during and is his greatest worry. after lunch at the Yugo-Slav Legation on Tuesday.--Unlied Press,
"I will go on collecting rates,” he declared, "until they call me up for the Army."
When 1 called Al his home
ITALIAN CASUALTY LIST
John showed me proudly into his Rome, July 17. oflee. It was a very businesslike The first Italian naval casually Hat looking pince, with ledgers and ac- Issued by General Headquarters since count books neatly piled on his roll- Italy's entrance into the war, and top desk. published to-day, contains the names of 10 dead and 149, wounded.- United Press,
Pains in Back Gone in 3 Hours
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He does all the accounts himself and the ledgers were scrupulously clean and filled, with heat handwrit- ing. He writes all the demand notices himself, posts a few to those living on the outskirts of his district and delivers the rest on foot.
He th proudest of all of the fact that he was the only rate collector on the coundll's · books · who hid no one on their arrears list last year.
And this is how he dose it.
*If they don't pay I hunt them up; I talk to them and they pay. I haven't summoned anyone for years." It sounds very simple.
In 02 years, he has had two rises and he is now receiving £17. He
any Chemist on QuarRSEM AÐ PLL YOU FIZ hak asked for more because his work has Increased. He collects from more than 100 people now and the Leo protable rateable value of the parish has in-
creased in recent years to £1,711.
Cystex
In one week.
The GuaraËN....
and carriers. In all branches of warf re. they ¡prove to be highly efficient.
Smiths and Browns
Learn
English
PEOPLE with typically British names like Smith, Brown and Sectt sat in a library at Chatham House, St. James's Square, re- cently having one of their first lessons in the English language.
They could claim British nationality | Polish countess. Another was the con but their gestures and expressions of an Englishman who had an income hud a far from typically British live of £5,000 a year and owned a steam liness and exuberance, and only one yacht. or two had spoken word of English until recently.
They were the wives and children of Englishmen who have made homes
themselves for
in the
trading centres of Northern France, Holland, Belgium, Czecho-Slovakla und_other_ Continental countries,
Penniless
Now many of these men are in Nazi prisons or concentration camps, and their families are penniless
refugees in their own country,
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12.30 Dance Maste by Billy Calton and His Band.
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8 Local Time Signal, Weather Report, and Announcements.
8.03 Light Orchestral Selections. The Nuremberg Doll-Overture (Adam); In The Shadows-Valsc (Finck); Bal Masque-Valse (Flot- cher).
8.15 London Relay-The Magnetlo Mine,
A
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8,45 Milliary Band Music.
"Poet and Peasant" Overture (Suppe); Dance of the Flowers-Valse Five thousand of these British(from 'le Corsaire Ballet'-Dellbes); Britain Slavonie Dance No. 5 (Dvorak, Op. refugees have arrived in within the past few weeks from the 72/5). Law Countries after suffering terrible privations during their escape.
They found friends in Britain. Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, "and" Sir Nevile Henderson, late Ambasan- dor to Berlin, founded the British Retugees War Fund to help them, and Lady Iveagh Jent her house next door to Chatham House as headquarters.
An official said that Sir Nevile is
One of the pupils learning "I go, I giving all the profits of his book, went, I have gone," had been born a "Fallure of a Mission," to the fund.
TWO MEN SHOT BY SENTRIES, DIE
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0.45 Schumann-Concerto In A finor, Op. 547-
Alfred Cortot (Plano) and The London Philharmonic Orchestra con- ducted by Sir Landon Ronald.
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10.17 Violin Bolos by Fritz Krels-
Poupee Valsante (Poldini-Krela- ler): Londonderry Air (arr, Kreis- ter); Dance of the Marionette (Win-) ternitz); Polichinelle Serenade (Kreisler);
10.30 A Light Orchestral Concert with Peroy Heming (Baritone) and Mavis Bennett (Soprano).
Bority Mocking Bird (Bishop): Vauxhall Way (Oliver); "Henry VIII" Dances (Edward Ger- man): Fairings; Come to the Fair; Jock the Fiddler; The Ballad-Monger (All from 'Songs of the Fair'—East-
TWO men, shot by sentries, died in hospital recently, hope Martin); The Knave of Dia- Joseph Henry Vaughan (20), of Whitman House, Bethnal Green, who died in Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, was stated not
to have stopped his car when signalled. ·
A passenger, Albert Turner_(20),|
of Sewardstone Road, Bethnal Green,
is in hospital with a shot wound; [· Another Radio
thres other men in the car were in- jured.
The was the road between
Pussingford Bridge and Ab Scare in U.S.
Bashed lights Into the roadway.
Another
scare,
- broadcast John Henry McDonald (58), em- ployed at a R.A.F. comp and living in similar to the one which in 1938 Central Drive, Blackpool was shot by sent thousands of Americans a sentry at the camp when riding hurrying to defend their coun- pillion on a motor-cycle and died in try against an invasion by hospital.
A motor-cyclist Mr. R. Boggis (32), troops from Mars," has occurred of Abbatsbury Road, Barnet Lano, in Philadelphia. Elstree, who apparently falled to hear
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QUEZON DEMOCRACY
Manila, July 17. President Manuel Quezon, in a speech to the students at the con- voration of the University of the Philippines yesterday afternoon,
advocated the establishunent of a new
type of democracy in which in
dividual liberties should be curtalled
in the interests of common good, and
also the abandonment of the two- party system.
a sentry's challenge at Elstree 111, tuned in to station KYW they sud- President Quezon sald, "It is party Herts, on Saturday was fired on and denly heard the announcer read this politics that causes inefficiency in injured,
telegram, addressed to Jack Benny, Government. It party opposition a well-known radio performer:
that causes delay in the execution of "Your worst fears that the world. needed reforms. It is party spirit OVERWHELMING VOTE is to end are confirmed by strong that weakens the Government and mers at the Franklin Institute in makes it incapable of facing difficult Workers' Party Returned Philadelphia. These scientists pre-situations. There is no liberly with- dict that the world will end at 3 out social restraint. The old concept In Lithuania
p.m. on Monday, Apell 1.
of property and property rights must This in no April fool statement. sfeld to social justice in the Interest Moscow, July 17. Confirmation can be obtained from of all component clements of society," The Tam News Agency announced Mr. Wagner Schlesinger, director of Political obervers point out that it to-day that according to a report the Fels Pinnatariums in this city in evidently the culmination of Presi from the Kaunas Election Commis Signed by the Director of Public dent Quezon's four-year programme, sian for election to the People's Diet Relations of the Franklin Institute." (Parliament) in Lithuania, showed
Thousands of frantic residents of during which he was drawing in complete Governmental powers to that 1,388,509 votes were cast in the Philadelphin flooded the newspaper his hands which now represents a election held on July 14-18, constitut-officen with telephone calls seeking
one party Legislature over which he of die report, They confirmation
has complete control. Of the voters 1,370,349, or 09.10 were renssured to hear that the an-
Observers
aplhed that this máy per cent of the electors, voted for nouncer had omitted to mention that mean the end of the American typo candidates, of the Union of Working the telegram was part of a pubilcity of Democracy in favour of a new. People of Lithuania, of which 79 "alunt" for a now exhibit. "How the quezon type. This is necessary to members were elected to the People's world will end," at the Franklin In- meet the world crisis according to the Diet-United Press
stitute.-B.U.P."
President United, Press,
ing 05.51 per cent, of the electors.
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