NANCY
HELLO, NANCY!-- IS MRS. SPUTTER
OUT?
NO, SIR... SHE HAS TWO LADIES VISITING HER --- THEY'RE IN HER SEWING ROOM,
TALKING!
Monday,
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AND I SUPPOSE, AS USUAL, YOU'VE BEEN LISTENING AT THE DOOR ALL DAY, TO HEAR WHAT THEY
CUPID FINDS WIFE FOR HIMSELF
THE "bachelor marriage broker," of Tottenham, N., has found a bride for himself. He proposed-and was accepted.
He's Arthur Heelaf, aged thirty-four, who travels the district on his bicycle doing his insurance round.
Three months ago he was lonely and niiserable.
Night
Others, he thought, must be as unhappy as he was. after night, just sitting in the same chair reading.. . reading.
Dutch Royalty in England
WHILE their grandmother,
Near Mr. Heclaf's flat at Broad- lane, Tottenham, is a public-house. He went along for a drink, and ሰ sign: "Hall to let for "Hundreds of lonely people." hej. thought, "All depressed by their own company. Upstairs is a hall doing nothing. Wo could all be Uhero together-laughing, talking. Joking, yes, and even firting."
WERE SAYING ---
THAT'S
AN INSULT.
July 29, 1940,
By Ernie Bushmiller
D.K.--- I APOLOGIZE!
DUTCH FLEET WITH US
IN
Mr. Heelaf advertised: "Lonely The Dutch Minister of Dafanco, Lieut. Col. Dyxhoorn inspected; bachelors, spinsters, widows and
units of the Dutch Home Fleet in a British Harbour. widowers
-to our over twenty-eight-come
the Queen of Holland, was at About 100 went along. There was Buckingham Palace Princess Jack Barnes, aged afty, of Green- Juliana's two children were play-lane, Winchmore Hill, and Miss Vern ing in the gardens of their new Grange, aged forty, of Cedars-iond,
Clapham, home in London.
She Was So Shy Only a few people were waiting! outside the house in Enton-square. They were present at four other S.W., when the royal refugee chil-dances. Then Mr. Barnes phoned to dren came out to play.
nak if they were eligible for the next one as they were married. There are a lot of cases like that,
There were no armed guards one or two policemen were there
to watch the traffic, but a crawling But, about Mr. Heclar tax
and a horse and cart were
the only vehicles in sight as Princess Juliana and the two iltile princesses crossed the road to the; garden rules of this quiet, almost lonely square.
Already At Homo
More Aliens Detained
THOUSANDS of German and Austrian men hitherto exempt from internment have been detained for intern- ment in England.
Arrests were made in all parts of the country and when Miss Ferry Smith, of Mari- included many who did not come into this country as borough-gardens Whetstone.
DK-
rived at the hill for the first time refugees. abo was shy.
Sho asked Mr. Heclaf if he About 64,000 German and Austrian men and women were would partner her-just ili she placed in Category "C" by the tribunals. This meant they were began to feel at home.
exempted both from internment and from the special restrictions applicable to enemy aliens, and were given much the same status as "friendly aliens."
Neither was lonely any more.
Prince Bernard peeped out to
Yesterday afternoon he was sitting make sure the coast was clear, Hein that same armchair, reading and
his Dutch Army uniform thinking. was still -Sam Browne, Jack boots and spurs and he beckoned to his wife and children.
Princess Juliana scemed already at home.
She had borrowed an English pram
for Princess Irene-po gas-proof cot for her now, nor even a gas mask in the whole party-and gently she dropped it down the two steps to the pavement.
She wore not tied with while ribbon over hed head. Her dress
STOLE TO AID
STRICKEN
•
WIFE
A MAN who pleaded gulity to defrauding a Glasgow business
Italians Interned
PUSHMILI
Woman's
Cry
from
the
Dock
CRYING, "Oh, my God-my husband and my children, what will they do?" a woman was carried from the dock at Middle- sex Sessions, when sentenced to six months' hard labour for at- Rh in- tempting to defrand surance company by faking a burglary.
She was Mrs. Winifred Margaret | Mann, aged thirty-three, of all-
ford - road, Sunbury-on-Thames, whose husband is paralysed. She has two young children and is ex- pecting a third.
Her counsel, Mr. C. G. Du Cant, described if as the most heartrend- ing case he had ever had. "Sho should not go to prison: I would sucher go to prison myself," he said.
Mrs. Mann was accused of at- tempting in July, 1939, to obtain £316 from the Royal Exchange Assurance Company by falsely re- presenting property had been stolen from her house,
After she reported that her house had been broken into and things stolen, the police found furs neatly wrapped up as if ready to be re- moved, but no signs of entry. Mr. and Mrs. Mann were subsequently made bankrupt.
Paid Her £130
In November Mrs. Mann and her sister-in-law visited pawnbrokers at Colchester and offered for pledge a watch and ring reported as stolcit.
The insurance company paid Mrs. Mann £130.
Mr. Du Cann appealed to the deputy chairman, Sir Reginald Coventry, K.C., not to send Mrs. Mann to
prison..
Some weeks ago about 2,000 of Sir Reginald: I have already in- Category "C" German and Austrian
dicated that I consider this a very males were interned, when a pos-
sad case, and I also feel that Mrs. sible zone of multary operations, Mann is not solely to blame. extending from the North of Scot- "Mrs. Marin is now maintaining land to the South of England, washer husband, her children and her- cleared of enemy allens,
self by keeping paying guests," sald Mr. Du Cann.
was a thin sumunery checked frock man of £5,071 and said he wanted the money to alleviate the pain 100 arrested in Glasgow this the-very-greatest--néed}}-and-for.||
and cooter, embroidered with tiny
flowers.
Beatrix, tho elder Princess, clutched a doll in one arm; the ather was stretched up to grasp her tall falber's hand, She had on a smocked frock, like her playmate. Baroness Itoell, with whom she romped in the gardens,
While Princess
Irene,
the baby, blinked her blue eyes in the sun, Princess Julinna read the morning paper, and Prince Bernhard went back into the house.
Animal Painter
Woo Cho-pun Exhibition Draws Crowds
of his wife, who had a tumor on the brain, was sent to prison for eighteen months at Edinburgh..
He was David Thomson, aged forty-six, of Rutherglen, Glasgow. The frankis took place between May 29, 1935, and March 10 last.
Mr. 3. J. Cunningham, defending, described the case OS "tragle. "Thomson had been in business in Glasgow," he said, "for many years, and traced the beginning of his dif ficulties to a serious illness which befeil his wife in 1935..
300 Miles
To Enlist
Subsequently the police were given authority to detain individuals in
"If she did this thing she must Category
"C
about whose reliability have done it under the temptation of there was some reason for doubt.
others rather than/herself. This week were many Italians.
woman's life is one long self-sacrifice Manchester and Salford police to her husband and her children." visited homes and business pre- mises used by Germans and Aus- trians and lock away about 100 for internment.
Sheffield police took into custody 30 Germans and Austrians handed them over to the military.
and
Husband Helpless
Mrs. Mann, in tears, declared her husband is helpless without her.
Sir Reginald, passing sentence, sald the Bench recognised Mrs. Mann had a sick husband and others ought to be in the dock with AMERICAN HEAT WAVE
her. Had she made a clean breast New York, July 27. of it when asked to plead
It would Temperatures in the east orc have been easier to be merciful, reaching the highest levels for years.
The defence was that in
that In September KATHLEEN MCLEOD, who Norfolk reports a temperature of 99 the watch and ring were found in a "She began to suffer from a tumor travelled from Stornoway, in degrees which is the hottest since lavender bush at the house. Mrs. 1875. New York recorded 07 and Mann said that säld it was on the the brain which was beyond the Hebrides, to Glasgow-over Philadelphia 99 degrees. The death suggestion of her sister-in-law, Mrs. operation. She lived in pain ill last 300 miles, including a sea pas. roll in the Middle West from pros. Dorothy Brown, wife of the captain February.
tration and drowning is now over of the Sudbury, Suffolk, fire brigade, Thomson knew the illness was Bage-to enlist in the W.A.A.F.8, 400. Thunder showers to-day broke that they were offered in pawn. bound to end in her death, but his Was heart-broken 'when she the heat in the mid-West and avert- Mrs. Brown gald she thought the wife did not, Ile did everything falled to pass a medical examina-ed serious damage to crops-United Insurance company had treated Mrs. Pessible to alleviate her suffering. tion.
Mann shabbily. "The bulk of the money," added
humanitarian work."
on
.*
Mr. Cunningham, "was used for this Kathleen a girl of eighteen, living
with her widowed mother in the The man from whom the money Atlantic-swept island of Lewis, was obtained appealed for leniency longed to do some war work. She for Thomson, and was not bliter talked it over with her chum, Jean against him, added Mr. Cunningham. Macrae, and they decided to join the
W.R.E.N.S.
C.O. Teachers Get the Sack
Press,
She's Armed for Danger
Só how
The exhibition of works by the well-known animal artist, Mr. Woo
EVERY morning a Whitby Floating mines and Nazi murder Cho-pun, at the Chi Yung Middle
(Yorks) woman, clad in oliskins and bombers hold no terror for Miss gumboots, takes a six-chamber re- School has attracted large and ad-
Walker. "The new life has givca volver from a drawer and loads it. miring crowds. There were some 60
me health," sho ays, “and desplic They filled in forms of application Finging a leather belt over her pictures on view, no less than 40 of quired. One is a group of tigers now but that was as for as they got. shoulder, she slips the revolver into
the dangers I intend to go on. them
of being
"For a time I was afraid we might Ugers, Mr. Woo's fa- hung on the fourth floor of the Ying Kathleen's mother throw the forms a holster and vourite subject.
King Restaurant und the other is a
reserve om- ¡come aerosa armed Nazis in a rubber Backs None of the works shown was for solitary and magnificent beast now on the fire because she thought her munition into a cartridge
bont. The Good Faith is capable of pouch. sale but it is worth recording that adorning the walls of the Tai You daughter loo young for war service.
Then, stepping briskly out of crossing the North Sea, and Nazi two recent paintings have been ac- Steamship Company's office.
Cottage, her dwelling perched airmen who had been brought down But, when Kathleen heard that among the maze or ancient cottages might try to get hold of my craft to Scotland was calling for W.A.A.F. high above the harbour, she descends take it to Germany. So you sent be recruits, she decided to enlist, and the steep stone steps of a narrow handy this (her she kept quiet about it. She set out alicy to board a Diesel-engined
"I learned to shoot on her Journey to Glasgow letting motor cobble mod
moored to the quay. her mother believe she was going to
There is a steel helmet, too, in the brothers than years ago with
goodness" She is forty-year-old Dorn Walker, visit friends.
Britain's only woman fishing-boat bout.. "But I am afrald that in the PARENTS in the Isle of Ely "We seem to be the first actiool Dressed in her best clothes, her Falth. She worked for a time as a shell aplinters from British warships skipper. Her craft is the Good ezellement I forget to put it on when (Camba) have refused to send authorities to rebel against the C..dreams, she believed, about to be nurse in the last war and later with were dropping around us on one their sons to Hereward Senior tribunal, which allows exemption to realised, she walked into the newly- the Belgian Red Cross.
men on condition they carry on with opened recruiting onlee at Glasgow, Passing her preliminary interview. Parents Very Annoyed
she went before the medical oficer "These men relain all the benefits and there her adventure ended. 'A written demand for the insiant
She could not be passed. With. dismissal of two masters caused of their profession under exemption disorganisation in the school-but from combatant service, while col-, tears in her eyes she saw her bright- the masters have received one leagues are making heavy sacrifices. at hopes shattered. month's notice. They will go in ** June.
Boys' Elementary School to be teaching. taught by teachers registered as
conscientious objectors.
Mr. E. J. P. Osborne (Director of Education in Ely) said!
"There are three schools, involved and five masters have been given notice. Two are at the Hercwnid, two others will leave March Benfor Secondary School at end of term in July, and one goes from Outwella Elementary Junior School.
"Naturally, parents have dis- "I am terribly disappointed," she cussed the matter among them-sold to the Daily Mirror, "I felt so selves and some are annoyed. They sure they would take me. I feel I have demanded that the masters go must do como war work even though before another term begins. Their mother is against it. Life is dull in outlook affects the boys and there Stornoway now that all the boys
· MOJIT alsorganisation in the have joined up, and I am not going schools because of it.
back there whatever happens. "The Education Committee passed "My friend, Jean, is coming fo resolution against the employment join me if I get a war job. I know of 'conchies' as teachers."
something. will turn up.'
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