'PHONE PLEAS FOR BRITAIN
Romarkable Drive in America
to he
remarkable drive to mobilise support for the campaign Britain, volunteer workers for the William Allen White Committee to defend America by aiding the Allies will ring up every private telephone number in New York City.
Business numbers will be omitted, but in New York's five boroughs there are 785,488'residential telephone numbers, which, It is pointed out, is more than all the business and home tele- phones in Norway, Finland, Eiro, Greece, Portugal, Bulgaria, Jugoslavia and Lithuania combined.
In each case the caller will apeak to the woman of the house if there is one-and try to en- list her sympathies for the com- mittec's work. A chart will be compiled showing whether the people called are in favour of the committee's objectives, against them, or merely neutral.
Those who are sympathetle will
PANAMA
HIGHWAY
READY
Lo called upon whenever the need WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 arisca to write letters to the Presi- | (UP). — Definite announcement Senators, Representatives and by the Panama Government that of the Administration, the trans-Isthmian highway, urging support for the measures connecting Panama City, on the recommended by the committee, which is now trying to arouse pubile Pacific, with Colon, on the opinion in favour of acnding Britain Atlantic, would be completed in 25 American flying fortresses." the immediate future has been Calis will be made by a team of received with much public en- 1.410 women. It is estimated that If one person made these calls and thusiasm, according to a report took two minutes for each, it would of the Commerce Department take him nearly 30 years to complete from Panama. the tank, assuming that he worked eight hours a day on every day of the week.
Secret U.S. Planes
mercial Attache at Panama City snid The oflee of the American Com- It is understood that work on about 25 miles of the highway yet un- finished will be rushed by working three shifts, development which will further improve the already en- couraging employment siluation.
Local commercial interests were reported to foresee many advantages to the Republic as the result of the NEW types of American air-ing, acceleration of freight movement completion of this highway, includ- craft will soon be flying with the from the Atlantle side docks RA.F.
Panama City, expansion by the The names of three of them ucking business, and development are still a secret, but they in-of the now botated areas of the
clude fighters made by the Curtis Company.
Even after these three machines have been put into service, they will not be men- tioned by name in official bul- letins until it is believed that the enemy knows about them and their capabilities,
But two American machines that will soon be officially mentioned are the Buitaly and the Boston.
The Buffalo is one of the latest United States single-seater' fighters.
Snub-Nosed Fighter Designed for the United States Navy, it a snub-nosed vicious- looking machine, easy to handle, but detalls of its performance have not yet been disclosed.
Interior.
Cotton Raid Plan Hopes
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December
17, 1940.
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FOR MEN
DISPOSSESSED BY HITLER-Homeless folk are becoming generally sean on London stroots as Hitler's airmon continue raids on Britain's capital city. These above were dispossessed by bombs, but they are attempting to salvago belongings from their homes.
Young Girl May Send DAMAGES Mother To Her Death AWARDED
A GIRL of 22 may doom her mother to the electric chair in New York. This is the latest development in the fantastic story of "Murder Incorporated"-The Brooklyn "cash and bury" syndicate which is now believed to have been responsible for 54 murders.
TO GIRL
-Police Sued
A 15-year-old domestic ser
Two leaders of the gang, "Buggay" Goldstein and "Pitts-vant who successfully claimed burgh Phil" Strauss, were sentenced to death recently for the damages for false imprisonment murder of a man known as "Puggy" Freinstein.
Weiner who married Benjamin The girl is Mrs. Sylvia ("Chippy") Weiner when she was 16. Her husband is now in Sing Sing Prison, serving a term for robbery.
fier meiner, Mrs. Rose Pantic), a stolld widow of 40, known as "the Red Rose of Williamsburg," is under arrest, charged as an accomplice to the murder of a gangster known Rubin (The Mock") Shopleo. Mr. O'Dwyer, New York's District At torney, belleves that she knows the secrets of ten other gang murders.
Visit To Husband
Mr. Churchill's promise to re- examine the question of air-raid material witness, but after a visit to The daughter was, detained as a insurance for property has been her husband in Sing Sing she re- especially well received in Lan-fused to talk. To convince her that cashire,
to tell what she knows may be the only way to save her mother's life, Mr. O'Dwyer polated to her and sald;
Some hills' in the Roylon district recently formed
mall pool to which each could draw it they suffer- which each contributed and, from
ed damage.
ut the Inland Revenue author- lies refused to consider these contri. butions as part of the expenses of should be included in profits for tax purposes.
from four police officers, had her claim increased from £50 to £80 by Judge Capron at Dudley
ANTI-NAZI County Court recently.
RIOTS IN NORWAY
Scenes of great disorder fol- lowed demonstrations by stu- dents against tho. Germans in Norway recently, and as a result the authorities have dissolved"
sociation. the Norwegian Students' As- (Switzerland) radio:
says Beromunster
He described the methods adopted by the police officers in investigating the disappearance of a handbag as "highly impro- per and dangerous to the course of justice.
The fact that the girl was an in- ant gave him power to Increase her medest claim,
Fetched From Bed
1
Vera Turner, of Robert Street, Lower Gornal, sued Inspector Fellon, in charge of the. Sedgley (Stafford- shire) Police Section, P.C. Williams and Plant and War Reserve Constable Bickerill.
Disorders were greatest in Oslo. The association "was dissolved, says She complained, that after a woman the radio station, because the students had missed a bag containing £22 she defled the ban on processions and was fetched cut of bed at her em- publle meetings
oyer's house at midnight, tuken to the money belonging to the associationed
The Germans have confiscated all the police stallon and severely ques-
P.C.'s "Inexperience"
be the first aircraft with n trleycie the business, and demanded that they of Mrs. Pantiel's arrest were com- ore.pny further demonstrations they taken to the station against her will.
The Boston is a bember. It will undercarriage to go into service with
the R.A.F.
מi
tlunt
con-
Irislead of a wheel at the tail t This attitude stopped further has one at the nose, apart from the tributions, with the result tant the two main landing wheels
the pool is too small to be effective. The nacelles of the motors.
industry
hopes now
Mr. At rest it is permanently in the Churchill's re-examination will cover take-off position, so
that it needs this polul only a short run to become airborne. Both the Buffalo and the Boston are believed to be better than any- thing of similar type belonging to the Nazi.
Cripps' Son Is C.O.
Island "King" Sued In U. S.
A suit for divorce has been filed in New York against Mr Harold Fortington, former "King cf Jethou," the island paradise
A Conscientious Objectors' in the Channel Isles, and since Tribunal, at Oxford, recently re- the war Director-General of gistered John Stafford Cripps, Progress and Statistics at the the son of Sir Stafford Cripps, War Office. British Ambassador in Moscow, His wife, Mrs Edna Winifred to do work of national im-Fortington, a daughter of Sir Ernest portance.
Jardine, the Nottingham lace mu- chine inagnate, is asking for 500
dollars (£2,000)
Jawyers'
He will be required to do agri- dolinis (100) weekly alimony and cultural or horticultural work or 10.000 market gardening for two days a: íces.
week.
Contested
"There's a girl who for love of a man in Sing Sing is going to sent her mother to the electric chair.
The
murders which the Districttion.
They have threatened that it there Attorney hopes to solve as a resule mitted in a gang war which followe. will close Oslo University and other an attempt by a
led by colleges and schools;" group "Knockout" Harry Halperm "muscle in". on territory run by another group, known as the "Lat ney Boys. Rubin Shapiro, a lo shark, was marked for murder b. cause the Larney gang suspected that he was financing Halperin's mo and supplying them with guns an
cars.
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Nazis Send Propaganda To Cabinet
Servant Leaves
£1,000
Sewing Machine Legacy Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Champion, of 24, Donald-road, Willesden, N.W., and formerly of Fifth-avenue, Queen's Park, W.10, described in her will (July 14, 1818) as a "domestic," who died. on April 28 lust, left £1108 1s. Id. (net personally £1,093 105, 2d.),
She left five War Savings Certif
cute
The judge held that the girl was Normal police investigation would have shown there was no ground for the conclusion that the bag had been Jost,
He believed that the sole desire of the officers was to carry out their July. That they did so improperly was due in the case of the constables t inexperience and over hasty con- clusions, and in the case of the in- spector to an undue acceptance and reliance upon conclusions and theories of his subordinates.
Bird Of Paradise Grows Long Tail SYDNEY, Australia, Nov. 24 (UP).
long.
to "my devoted parent" Henry-A bird of paradise in New Guinea A. Barton, and her sewing machineas outdone the dog that grew a fall "to be used in memory of me," too long that the dog was wagged by NAZI propaganda is still being mother, residing at White Oak School,ength, has grown a tail three feet her friend Minnie Pepper, "house-the latter. The bird, nine inches in distributed in England by Swanley, Kent" members of the former British! The whole of her goods and effects Union of Fascuts,
the left to Moy Barton, of Graves-ribbon-talled bird of paradise," after It has been named the "McNicoll's These people, who have man end, "as some little recompense for Sir William McNicoll, administrator aged to elude the police net, have and meter she has given my late ton of New Guinea, who has sent a spec been sending anonymous notes to Cabinet Ministors, writers of newspaper articles and public
Gripps submitted that war living
She says in her petition that she is men. was irreconcilable with
In comparative poverty in the New York with her daughter.
In nearly every case the Christian belief in the Father-
a rubber The Sunday Dispatch New York senders have used hood of God and the Brother-correspondent says Mr. Fortington stamp, with movable type and an
hood of man."
ins "contested the suit He was at one time prospective Jethou from Mr. Compton Mackenzie, Mr Fortington bought the Isle of Labour candidate for Exeter.
no novelist.
GERMANS TRY TO WIN
OVER GUERNSEY ISLANDERS GERMANS in occupation of Guernsey are trying to win over the islanders to their cause by kid glove methods but over all is the shadow of the Gestapo, says a "Daily Herald" pondent.
corres-
One of a party of eight men who got away from the island in a 20-foot boat told of life in Nazi Guernsey.
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The invaders are so extra courteous," he said, "that they. even step. off the pavement to allow women to pass,
"There is a penalty of 15 years, potatoes and something like chaff Imprisonment for anyone who speaks and produces chronic Indigestion. slightingly of German soldiers, and
"Lots of tinned food has been
[inking pad.
are two favourite phrases:
"Ifell Hitler" and "You dirty Jews
Others are of a highly obscene nature.
Scotland-yard and G.P.O. detec- lives are trying to trace the senders!
Some of the notes have been posted Southend-on-Sea and others, in, South-East London.
In
Known To Police
me."
men to the Museum here,
ONE NURSE SAVES 18 BOMBED EXPECTANT' MOTHERS
`EIGHTEEN, expectant London mothers owe their lives to
the amazing heroism of 30-year-old Staff Nurse Tegwen Davies. Single-handed, she dragged them from the remains of a bombed- pre-natal home in East Anglia,
The bomb wrecked one side of the home one night recently, burying a number of the mothers under piles of bricks and fallen
timbers,
"It was only a fluke that Iries to take them all to hospital. happened to be near the spot,"- "As a political organisation the
"I got five of them away in a car British Union of Fascists ceased to said Nurse Davies. "There was and asked the driver to call the hos salda Scotland-yard oficial. exist after the arrest of its leader, no nursing staff at the home pital ambulances,
"The only a housekeeper. I was out-with
The most dimeuft thing to deal organization has been broken up.
was the mothers' labour, I had side. "Active members of the body have
to attend several of them on the way been dealt with and others are known light and flung myself dat on the
saw the bomb fall in the moon-to hospital. to the police.
"A a matter of fact, five babies, "Since the arrest of Sir Oswald round.
Including twins, were born shortly Mosley many of the rank and file loose. There was a terrife flash, and
Then all hell seemed to break after I got the women there. members have kept, particularly
"There were a. number of casuni quiet. There are still some who are bile of brick werk Aung all around ties, some of them fatal." trying to keep Fascism: alive, but, they do not dare to come out in the open. They are content to send these anonymous communications."
"When I picked myself up I could dar a number of women screaming for help.
"I clambered over the debris and
started to feel around in, the dark, į BEST
the singing at 'God Save the King taken to France.". la forbidden.
Publle house stocks of beer are "Everyday is made to work. Flat rapidly diminishing, and spirits are rates of pay are 30s, a week for banned.
MORE NEW ZEALAND --It was simply dreadful. single men and 388. for married men, Guernsey newspapers are bi-lingual
BUTTER AND CHEESE
Blast Blackened- with a few extra shillings for each now, and they contain lessoria Krs
the women were blackened child.
Germas All the wages, are paid by the
New Zealand hopes to send to by the bomb blast and I had the Guernsey State.
The islander said that between 800 butter and cheese in the coming year, who
Britain greatly increased supplies of, greatest dimculty in finding those Rationing Sevore
and 1,000 German troops were in said Mr. W. Jordan, High Commis- "Six of them staggered out with
were unconscious. Guernsey, and many brought their sioner for the Dominion, speaking at a little help, but I had to drog 12 "Rationing was getting severe 'wives and sweethearts. whon I left. We were each allowed
SieMational Trade Union Club, out by the armpits.
sont most of the mothers into labour. The produce, of, New Zealand To make matters worse. the shock "I placed them down on the pave- ment and tried to stop cars and lor
Discipline is strict," he added.
two ounces of butter and sixpenny "A soldler who interfered with a wcol, butter, cheese and meat was worth of most'a' week,
woman schoolteacher was shot after being sold to the British Govern "Brand is poor. It is made of court-martial.".
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