NANCY
GOOD NIGHT-- HERE COMES ·
THAT PEST AGAIN!
RUNNING OF ZOO IN WARTIME
Difficulties Being Countered
The war's effect on the running of the Scottish Zoological Park was the subject of an address by Lord Salvesen at the first meeting of the season of the Zoological Park Luncheon Club re- cently.
Lord Salvesen said that for the first time they were appre- clating the full effects of wartime in carrying on the Zoo. The income for the first six months of the year for the past five years averaged £12,907, but this year the takings were £5,300.
The management had tried to meet the difficult situation in yarious ways. The staff had been reduced, and a number of animals which could easily be replaced at the termination of the war had been disposed of.
They had been able to counter the difficulties to a certain extent by Mr Gillespie's adoption scheme, which had had a falé measure of surress. A mum of £600 had been promised or given for the feeding of the adopted animals, There were, how- ever, plenty of animals yet requiring fosterparents.
of
Lord Salvesen said he had thought another method of helping. Any body who had a garden would have a lorge amount of surplus material the way of cabbage leaves or the leaves of other, succulent vegetables. These would be very useful to the Zoo, and they would be willing to go round and collect a sackful from any person
Wolves Complaint
Cardinal
Condemns
War Savagery
The indiscriminate bombing and slaughter of non-combatants and the destruction of churches, i convents, schools, and hospitals must stir the deepest indigna- ! tion in everyone in whom lingers a trace of civilisation."
The Archbishop of Westmins- ter (Cardinal Hinsley) says this in a message to the Protonary Apostolic of Athens.
Lord Salvesen gave an Interesting | plece of information when he re "Nothing better could be ex- ferred to the fact that fifteen wolves had been disposed off in deference to pected of youths trained in the complaints of their being noisy and school of totalitarian paganism, the danger if they escaped
paid. The nel calate during an but the voice of the Christian als, he said, were world will loudly condemn such tame and very Limorous, and never savagery," he says. attacked a a person single-handed.
Lord Salvesen stressed the value
alr
Staves to Tyranny
of the Zoo. He did not know of any We find it hard to believe that the olher outdoor recreation that was Italian people lend themselves free- comparable to a visit to the Zoo, ly to the methods practised on the From the start of the war they had Greeks.
thrown open their doors to every Surely Italians will cast off the person in uniform, and 20,000 uni-fetters which make them the slaves formed persons had already entered of Nordic tyranny. the Zoo free of charge.
To aid or abet the unscrupulous power-hunters seeking to degrade Europe below the lowest level of its Idolatrous past, will brand with in -PROSPERITY-IN-WOOL-my-alt-thoro who co-operate in
INDUSTRY
Very big orders are now being placed throughout the wool industry for material to be made up into blankets. One agent offered a con- tract for 1,000,000 lbs. of coarse count
it."
OBJECTS
January 29, 1941.
Wednesday,
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By Ernie Bushmiller
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DEC-11
SHELTERS Britons have appropriated railway tunnols for slooping quarters during air raids. Those quarters in Ramsgato tunnel aro 90 feet underground, completed before stort of war.
Guard Aircraft Plants To Prevent Sabotage
By Alexander Kahn
United Press Staff Correspondent
LOS ANGELES,. Jan, 28 (UP).-Privately-owned aircraft plants in Southern California are under the most stringent surveillance to prevent possible sabotage of planes being built for the United States and Britain.
Even executives of aircraft companies must follow closely the rules laid down by military intelligence officers assigned to guard these koy industrial units.
Recently Robert Gross, president of Lockheed Aircraft Company, was stopped in his own plant and forced to don a badge identifying him as a company employee before he was permitted to go through the factory.
In addition to Army and Navy intelligence officers by the score, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, private police and! on guard against saboteurs. British intelligence agents are Every major acroplane factory in Southern California has orders from Britain for fighting or training planes, and at each factory the British Purchasing Commission has set up its own offices to check every step in the building of the planes
Captured Britons' One Meal
Millions Undergo Training
U.S. Army Practises Blitzkrieg Tactics
By John A. Reichmann
*United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. (UP)The United States Army is confident of its ability to meet any emergency that could confront it now. and, likewise, any future. emergency.
That is the opinion of officers working long hours in army posts throughout the country to convert millions of peaceful men and billions of taxpayers' money into an efficient," hard-hitting army.
Their confidence is reflected number and exact equipetent a in the high morale manifested secret.
Two Lessche nt various posts visited by this, correspondent and other defence All of these men and all of this writers during a recent army-activity represent the army's adap sponsored air tour of the con- tation of lessons learned from modern tinental defence establishment.
war,
The two most limportant army les- nons learned so far, the veteran'off- the breach at the front more quickly
The new nailonal army that is be- ing worked into shape gave the imcers indicate, are to get infantry Into premion that it was deadly serious about is Joh. In many ways, the than before and, secondly, to arm it army of to-day presents a different pleture than the army of 1917. The offlcers and men are more casual in their relations, yet there is no lack of discipline. The salute is an brisk
more heavily so that it can strike harder on offensive or in repelling a counter-attack.
The tanks, the dive bombers and
as ever and the air about the camps the artillery may breach enemy lines, His thick with "yes, sir," and "no, air.” | but it is still the infantry that gains
Throughout the area covered by ground and holds it, they assert.
the survey-from Fort Bliss, Texas
to Fort Benning, Georgia-barracks were sprouting from the mud and dust, as they did in 1917. But there is an ordered form to the expansion programms.
Crown Prince Umberto
Believed Held Prisoner
Company streets are laid out with greater efficiency. Sometimes the equipment is Inadequate but it is kept in tip-top shape. At Fort Sili, ITALIAN troops believe that Oklahoma, where the new 349th Crown Prince Umberto is in- Field Artillery Regiment is being
formed with negro recruits, the 153- terned somewhere in northern millimeter rifles made in France in Italy. Italian officers taken prl- 1917 are polished until they are as soner by the Greeks said this, shiny as the 1040 tractors that pull an Athens message states. them.
Training Survey
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Prince Umberto, who is 37, was told by Mussolini in Febru
At Fort Knox, Kentucky, youngary last year that he no longer men with a flair for machines, are hold his title, as it had been applying their genius to modern, Armour-plated tanks that to tearing abolished. Rcross the broken, ravines along the Ohio River at 50 miles an hour, Dring cannon at targets.
The officers of this new armoured corps know, and they tell their men, that they are but one part of a team; that the tanks themselves cannot win wars but must use their tremendous strikking power to break through and fan out behind an enemy, facilitating the work of the infantry,
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Its
He had annoyed Mussolini by, refusing to support the Italian Government's anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic policy.
He had also opposed the anti- French policy of the Italian Foreign Minister (Count Ciano),
:
Virtual Exile
It was rumoured In May last year At Fort Bliss, Texas, horse cavalry that Mussolint was 'virtually exiling
fighting
to maintain place Prince Umberto to Belgium. despite the alarums of some other. In October, 1929, an Italian student branches that the day of the horse tried to assassinate the Crown Prince Officers thero pointed in Brussels because he had "betrayed out that many areas prevent any use the Italian Constitution."
has
passed.
of tanks and that horse and horse- Princo Umberto was married to over difficult terrain at a remarkable January, 1930. They have one son, men can carry a great fire power Princess Mario Jose of Belglum in speed.
To clinch their argument, these aged four. veteran officers nsk, "How do you know where the next war will be fought?"
The
new
Air Classes
Hitler, Duce
At Concerti
"Let Me Die"-Played During Mussolini's meeting with Hitler in the Palazzo Vec-. chio, Florence, recently, Italian pursuit 'planes cruised overhead, the Rome correspondent of the
to of the City Council that the name of break of sabotage on the West Large forces also are employed at in occupied France was describ-dfuteton at Fort Sam Houston, demon- New York Times" discloses.
in Downey.
At Randolph Field, Texas, young cadets work long hours with their comparatively few training planes, rushing from class to class to get the last minute of training service from Cari A. Cover, vice president the elty in which the factory is
them. On fair day, the skies over BERLIN STREET of the Douglas Aircraft Com- located.
At the Douglas Plant in Santa
those Texas plains roar as one class pany, recently announced, in Monica, James E. Davis, former chief
THE life of English prisoners swoops down after its lesson and an- Residents in Berlin Street, Belfast, answer to reports that the Dies of police of the city of Los Angeles,
streamlined infantry yarn. When ready, the blankets will do not intend to accept the decision Committee had predicted an out-is in charge of the special officers in German concentration camps other one takes off. be sent as quickly as possible
North American Aviation Company's ed to a newspaper correspondent strates how quickly it can move fool London and elsewhere for the use the thoroughfare should not be of people whose houses have been changed. The Council decided that Coast, that every possible plant in Inglewood and the Vultes recently in London by an Eng. soldiers from one point to another. Their mobility is incredible to World bombed, and who are now housed in Gerthan and Italian names
are to caution was being taken by play factories themselves are all lish woman who visited one.
War doughboys. remain, but the
At Fort school and other buildings..
people of Berlin military intelligence officers.
AL "All Englishmen between the
Benning, Georgia, the Street are to petition the City A source close to the aircraft in surrounded by high fences behind Fathers, for they feel that the name dustry revealed that the danger of which private officers. patrol. Each
tonk manoeuvres in steep ravines and no longer does them credit.
wooded hillsides, through rain and sabotage is minimised through de-factory has its own fire crew and is ages of 18 and 56 were taken,"second armoured division works out centralised mass production and close equipped with automatic sprinklers she said.
"A German official came to dust." Parachute troops tumble employee supervision.
to reduce the danger. from spontane- Unlike automobile production, no ous origin as well as any fire that each door and took them at once dizzily from low-flying planes, their
in might be sabotage, Failing to appear before Mr K. Massembly line, as such, exists watched a seagull struggle in a late at now nasault charge, atriped into several operations and
it became caught yesterday on
divided barbed-wiro entanglement.
by They Charlle G. McComble, 29, officer of a each of these is handled called to soldiers to shoot it. Two British steamer, had his bail of $26 sep
separate crew of craftsmen. Scotsmen of Highland Regiment estreated.
the plone can go on to the next to McComble was alleged threaded their way through the wire
have operation, it must meet rigid inspec- until they reached the seagull, freed assaulted George Daniel Hafschmied. tion, and any faults found must be it, and took it back to their dug-out 20, merchant, et No. 30 Mody Road, corrected before it is passed.
at the Peninsula Hotel on Monday. for a meal before letting it go,
SOLDIERS RESCUE SEAGULL
Hundreds of people on the pro- menade at South Coast town
A
HOLIDAY ASSAULT
נזס
UFS
RUSSIA BOUND-Lieut. Gondral Yoshitsugu Tatokawa, racont- ly appointed to represent Japanese government as Ambassador
to Moscow, about to leave Tokyo, Japan. He'is bidden adieu by Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, right.
The work is
Minute Inspection
Before
War May End Show Ban
with just a small bundle of cloth- ing as luggage.
"In the camp I visited conditions were not too bad.
"There are two huge dormitories for 150 prisoners and a barbed wire enclosure.
Weekly Visitors
"Visitors are allowed once a week,
but they must stand outside the barbed wire at a shouting distance.
guard with revolvers remains be
Planą for more and better war- These inspections are made by time entertainment are to be con- veteran and trusted employees. They check every rivet and ball with sidered by an emergency com- magnifying glasses. And even when mittee set up by the London side the visitor.
"Prisoners sleep on camp beds. A passed by the inspectors, they are Theatre Couneli.
blanket is provided, but there is no re-inspected at unslated intervals by
The committee will review pro-heating in the huts Army and Navy experts as well as
clean seemed
and blems arising from the present phase by British representatives.
Everything supervision is worked of the war, and the extension of en-efficient, and I was amused to see Employce
sp.311 City businessmen splek and Every worker is tertainment to give employment similar lines. with a vided
which, by its actors and actresses thrown badge
and shaven in splie of the great soap shortage. colour, discloses in what department work.
"Prisoners wash their own clothes is employed. Any employee found
he
to
out of
Apart from this move by managers
Bored
in the wrong department immediate and actors, the Theatrical Managers' under a communal pump. They have ly goes before the intelligence ofleora Association is trying to obtain per- only one meal a day-lentil soup,
to open for questioning. He is subject to mission for theatres
for with meat in it, and bread, Instant dismissal unless the military Sunday matinees. men are satisfied with his explana It la hopea that the 150-year-old tion.
law forbidding Sunday shows in to the identifying costume or make-up will be aus- In addition badge, the employee carries a card pended, at least for the duration of which tells what department 10 the war. works in and bears his photograph and fingerprints. He must have this card with him at all times.
any of!
The Infrequent visitor the aeroplane plants in this aren also is badged and some report that, although escorted by company guides, they were stopped from a half-dozen to a dozen times by special police who examined their passes.
**Those with wives and families outside are allowed to receive a little money. A frali and vegetable man calls daily at the camp to sell to the men.
Baton Twirler Loses the men have nothing to do all day.
-By A Nose
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Violet Mulvenna, 19, who won the American Legion drum majorette contest at Boston, lost her place at the head of the University of Missis The number of intelligence officers, sippi band-by a nose, Iler own
Eyes All Watching
in the worse thing. Only "Boredom German newspapers are allowed, and "The villagers are very kind to us," the Englishwoman concluded.
"All the English in my district kept very cheerful and courageous, in spite of dificulties and hardships."
“SIAMESE” TWINS...
FBI agents and private police work pretty baton twirlar had ex- "Siamese twins have been born log in each of the plants is milliary
of a Spanish flaher Information not made public. But it pected to step before the Mississippi- to the wife
is known that at the Lockheed Plant Georgia football crowd recently
at man in a village near Alicante. Tho
in Burbank, Cal,, alone, there are Athens. But in a parade the tossed twins, who are joined from their more than 100 private officers, farl ber baton upward, falled to see. It neck to their toes, are expected to
survive. exceeding: the entire police force of coming down. It struck her nose.
He notes that in the Clement VII. Hall, where the Dictators talked to one another, there is a bust of Machiavelli, and he records that, after lunch, rain prevented them from making a tour of the city, so they attended' a concert at which - Monteverdi's "Let Me Dio" was
played.
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