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STOPPING IN MID-AIR!
February 12, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
CHRISTMAS
"if I'm too small for prob lems, I'm too small for lax atives made for grown ups. Give me Castorlaïit's made for children onty."
HIT BY NAZI RAIDER British auxillary cruiser Carnarvon Castio makes port af Montevideo aftor ancountor with German cruiser in South Ailantie. Radio picturo shows affects of sholling on super- structuro,
Magnesium Works
For Australia
A COMPANY with £500,000 capital has been formed in Tas- mania to manufacture magne- slum.
of
the
ENTOMBS SELF IN ICE TO SAVE BODY FROM WOLVES
Out of the frozen Yukon comes the story of an aged Alaskan Sourdough who, dying in the wilderness, entombed his body in ice to save it from the wolves.
Encased in solid ice, Edwin A. Robertson, 84, was found by a searching party in a glacial stream where a little trickle of water flowed over the ice..
It is expected that the Federal Government will use most Tasmanian magnesium for war pure poses.
The company's factory, says an His rifle, the tracks of wolves announcement, will be the
third and a tiny heap of sticka with magnesium producing plant in the which, he had tried vainly to Build a fire were found beside the stream.
Empire.
It is proposed, to mine about 10,000 tons of ore a year, enough to yield 1,000 tons of magnesium.
Gestapo Get A Free Pass
Robertson, a Maine man who had upent most of his life in the wilds of interlo. Alaska, lived in a lonely cabin on Seventy Mile River. On Nov. 14, he set out for Engle, near the Alaska-Yukon Territory border and less than 100 miles below the
Man Who Wants His Property Bombed
YOU don't often meet any one who would giye three hearty- cheers if a salvo of bombs fell plumb in the middle of his pro- perty. But I had that experience, writes the City Editor of the "Sunday Express."
The would-be bomb victim Is
a director of a British oil com-
pany operating in Rumania.
"I seo it stated," he said, "that
ご
SOS In Bottle
one reason why the R.A.F. have Faked By Boys
not bombed the Rumanian -oil.
wells is that it is better to wait
TWO boys of 13, on the Nor-
until the oil reaches the German folk coast, threw into the sea refineries and bomb it then. two bottles containing messages It's easier to smash a refinery, they say, than destroy an oil well,
"The fact is, of course, that Ger- many does not refine Rumanian oil.. She does not buy a drop of crude oil from Rumania. The crude contains
written on cigarette packets:
One said, "I am the pilot of a fighter plane shot down while on patrol, Have swam to Seal Island. Send help." A flight lieutenant's
une follows.
The other, with the same pilot's 38 per cent. to 40 per cent. of fuel name, said, "SOS from Seal Island. oil, which Germany doesn't want, I was shot down while on patrol," end which would merely transport spate,
waste
"The Nazis are interested only in refined oil, and that is what they are buying-as much of it as they, can
carry,
Would Give Address
"Last year Rumania exported
4,000,000 tons of refined products, Her exports of crude oil were barely 300,000 tons, and all of that went to other Balkan countries.
Until it was established there was no missing pilot of the name given
plane was kept warmed up and a pilot on duty and communications were made with searchlights, const- guards and RAF stations.
The boys were fined 20s, each at
Hunstantion juvenile court recently.
Disracted. His Attention
Flag-draped coffins of twee Ger- man airmen were stated at Southend Police Court, to have distracted the
Everitt,
"So, if it's casler to bust a refinery than an oil well, let the R.A.F. tacitie (night beside the stream. But when the Rumanian refineries. I will will he was unable to light a fire, death ingly give them the address of ours
which, I regret, is now supplying the attention run freezing swiftly approached.
Steel was convinced that the Nazis with about 100,000 tons a Southend motorist, so that when he howling of the wolves and the cer- month." tainty of death impelled Robertson to lie down in the stream and let' the freezing water trickle over him.
AUSTRALIAN WHEAT
SOLD TO JAPAN
King's Valet Joins were being taken to the cemetery
The Guards
1
of Thomas had to swerve suddenly to avoid on collided oncoming van, he almost
they with the RAF. lorry on
on which He drove between the coffin-laden lorry and the car of a pilot-omeer, who was following ten yards behind. Guardsman T. Jerram, serving in! Everitt was fined £1 and 10s d TILE Australian Minister for Com- one of the famous Guards regiments, costs for careless driving the Mayor merce, Sir Earle Page, said in the was Jerram, the King's valet. He saying that his excuse that the coffins Infested with Wolves
House of Representatives in Canberra was called up in his age group a few distracted his attention
understandable. The weather was bitterly cold; the recently that 33,000 tons of Australl-weeks ago. route untravelled and without shefter on wheat from the Number 1 Pool
fact that he was a royal ser- vant could not keep him out of and the country infested with wolves, had been sold to a Japanese buyer,
As U.S. Commissioner R. E. Sleel Replying to Mr Breen (Lab., N. S. military service. The King's view is reconstructed Robertson's end, dark-W.), Sir Earle Page said that it was that no member of the Palace stuff mess overtook the old-timer on the not the practice to disclose details of-may-be-excused service with the trail and he tried to camp for the Individual transactions,
forces.
Gestapo agents in Holland are to receive blank entry passes for Arctic Circle.
cinemas and concerts, museums, theatres, according to Dutch circles: in London.
The reason given is not that the Gestapo like to play while they work. They may they want to keep in touch with the cultural life of the country!
The Sky is their limit!
Make it
yours
(S.A.G)
I
The
BULB MARKET PROSPECTS
was quite
Practised Dentistry Without A Licence
A CHINESE, Wat Soon, was produced before Mr. S. A. Baker, first magistrate of Muar, F.M.S., recently and charged with hav- ing practised dentistry when he was not licensed to do so.
It was alleged that accused carried
British bulb growers are hoping that by next year they will have captured the Dutch export market. After Germany's invasion of Holland on his practice at a small village, n ban was placed on bulb growing, Lengga, about 20 miles from Muar. one of Holland's main exports, many crops were ruined and tulips given to the cattle.
Japan is also becoming a competi-Penang and Kuala Lumpur. tor in the bulb market. She has the advantage of lower prices while her quality is said to be satisfactory, though she cannot yet supply large quantity.
It was further stated that accused had been an unlicensed dentist for ihe past four years in Malacca,
and
facts
Accused admitted the pleaded guilty to the charge.
He was convicted on his own plea of guilty and fined $25 and given two months' time to pay the One,
"
DON'T TREAT YOUR CHILD'S SYSTEM AS YOU DO YOUR OWN
Your chlid may be a little man to you-art so much like "Dad" that you may forget that his system is dellente after all, It cannot stand oven in small doses the same strong laxatives, that adults may take.
Casteria is mado ospecially And only for childron
So the next time his tongue lę .conted, a cold is on the way, or he has a stomach upset, give him Castorin, the laxative made espe- cially and only for children. He will take it willingly for children love its pleasant taste. But sbuvo all else Castoria is anfe for doll- cately balanced young systems – contains no harsh, irritating "adult".drugs.
Castorla is so mild and gentle in action it can be taken from babyhood to 11 years. Get ac- quainted with Castoria-the safe
laxativo mado especially and only for children. Keep a bottle on hand always.
SEA
Where there are children, Castorials
needed. Econuail. cal. 12 doses or more in each bottle.
CASTORIA
The SAFE laxative for children
M. Two Shaves
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