NANCY
SLUGGO.---DO
YOU THINK
I OUGHT TO
KEEP UP MY
REDUCING DIET ?
DAT'S
UP TO
YOU, NANCY!
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WELL --- DO YOU WANT ME TO BE FAT OR THIN WHEN I GROW UP?
Monday,
I CAN'T MAKE UP MY MIND EITHER!
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
I'LL HELP YA DECIDE GET ME SOME OF YER AUNT FRITZI'S OLD SHOES!
April 28, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
O.K. TAKE Y CHOICE!
Heel Click
Told Nazi's
Identity
How an escaped Nuzi prisoner | gave himself away by elleking his heels and bowing his head in i the German manner wis describ- ed recently, by a Sheffield 'bus conductor, who effected his re- capture.
The conductor is Colin Spittle. He was acting as conductor on a 'bus going from Gainsborough lo Sheffield. On reaching Retford police informed him that three German prisoners had escaped in the north of England, and be was given a description: of the
men.
The Passenger
When the bus was 18 miles from Sheffield a young man got on. He was dressed in a sports Jacket and grey flannels, and carried small travelling case which was later found to contain chocolate.
"He asked for a ticket to Shef- Held in fluent `If unnatural Eng- lsh," said Mr Splitle. "As I gave him a leket I heard a sharp ellek of his heels and saw a forward movement of his head. My su- pletons were aroused, and I told the driver to stop if we saw a police-"
Man
Didn't Have Card
"We came on a sergeant and a constable and stopped. 1 told them of my suspicions. When asked for his identification card the passenger replied. I have not got one." was quite self-possessed till he was asked if he was one of the three escuped men. Then he appeared started and was taken into custody."
Importance Of Music Is Stressed
"JAZZ to some people is prob-
ably delightful, while to others it more nearly resembles the wailings and contortions of a ent having an operation without an anaesthetic," said Miss Bloxsom, principal of Malacca's Metho dist Girls' School, speaking on "Music and the Cardinal Prin ciples of Education" to the Maincen Teachers Association.
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ABOUT TO LET GO-High over Fort Benning, Georgia, member of the 51st Parachute Battalion of the U.S. Army is about to let go in an air march to the ground. Note static line that automatically rips pack cover when the 'chutist is 15 feet from the plane. Line'snaps and 'chute billows clear of tail.
Two Nazi Invade
Attempts To Britain Fail
Persistent reports that the Germans made at least two unsuccessful attempts to invade Britain are declared to be correct in an article written for the North American newspaper Alliance by Boris Nikolayevsky, a Russian publicist and historian, who reached New York recently after living in France for many years.
He confirms information from other sources that French | hospitals, including those in Paris, are fullof German-soldiers.) suffering from terrible burns. He explains this by stating that the British sowed the Channel with thousands of tanks filled with' oil and petrol, anchoring them just below the surface,
Battle Dress Change
Tunic Design There is to be a change in the Army's battle dress. Though comfortable for ordinary use, the present blouse dress has a belt, at the back which makes the "What enraptures one race may wearer sticky and uncomfortable sound untuneful and monotonous to in summer and in winter the mother," continued Miss Bloxsom cold gets in the gap between "Although differing races and nation- alities do not agree on what kind of trousers and blouse. music is important, we can agree on this, that music as a subject, what ever kind we prefer, has its place in our consideration."
It is considered that the new dress will be ready for general distribution this summer, and is likely to take the form of a tunle, covering the top of
The Nazis made their first in- vasion attempt in August with approximately 1,200 barges, specially constructed of niumini- um. Each carried 50 soldiers, with full equipment.
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Boy Of Nine Inherits £291,000
Gustavus George Hamilton- Russell, nine-year-old kinsman of the Earl of Harewood, who lost father, mother, and sister in three years, has inherited £291,- 000 under the will of his father, Lieutenant the Hon. Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell, who was killed in action in June with the Grenadier Guards.
Lieutenant Hamilton-Russell, who was heir to Viscount Boyne 2141 nephew of Lord Harewood, Was thirty-two. While in attendance on the Princess Royal in Westminster Abbey un Coronation Day 1937, he was enlied to Westminster Hospital. where his four-year-old daughter Charmian lay dying.
The child had fallen down n 60ft Ift shaft at the house of Lord Bearst- ed In Carlton-gardens,
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Parliament in 1890 missed the dendline of the Alvinston
of submerged tanks halfway across (Ontario) "Free Press" by 50, the Channel British 'planes started raining incendiary bombs, These years, but it has finally reached, broke open the tanks and ignited the paper's readers.
the contents, which spread over the water and transformed it into sea of fire.
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Describing this to a French nurse, one German soldier said: "We were caught like fish in a frying pan."
Second Attempt Nikolayevsky adds that the
tempts.
The address ran into three columns of "boiler plate," a metal casting ready to publish.
It was consigned to the puper, a weekly, but in some manner the package slipped down into a double!
Bomber Fund was commenced
wall at the Alvinston railroad freight the
Gerstation and was forgotten.
The station was demolished recent-
the trousers, fastened at the waist by mans tried again in September, with Leaders to-day agreed that musica beit. The regulation trousers will the same result. No fewer than 81ty and the package discovered. contributed definitely to the aims of remain unchanged. education or the "seven cardinal It is probable that several types of 000 soldiers perished in the two al- principles" listed by one educator as experimental uniforms will be de health, command of fundamental signed, and wearers will report their processes, worthy use of leisure time, opinion of them, with a view to -worthy home membership, vocation obtaining the most generally accept- -citizenship and ethical character. ed type of uniform.
Nazi Pilot Glad To
Be
In Good Old England'
The German pilot of a Junkers 88 bomber shot down with a
blazing, wing on marshland near Great Yarmouth said to his cap
́tors: "We are in good old England at Jast. It is like coming home.”
The tall, well-built pilot and į bomber was shot down by M. his crew of three had their trawler Galvani. The 353-ton traw- hands in the air. They had just er had no dunnge or ensunities. handed over their revolvers to Mr Harry Thain, drainage en- gineer and his friend, Mr Robert Sadler, market gardener, Somerton.
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A low yards away was the rubber bont they had dragged from their .machine. For a
two moment or
they seemed to have a notion of escaping across the cold, grey water of the North Sen-until Thain and Sadler ran across the fields,
Pleased to be Here Describing the capture of the bomber's crew. Farmer Frank Starling, who drove up in kls tractor with » fire-pump in tow. wald: "They all looked jolly pleased to be in 'Good old Eng- land. One had a damaged knee,. and another's forehead and scalp were badly singed.
There was a wave of mutinies in the German army when the troops learned that a third was being plun-
ned.
The British are reported by Nike- layevsky to be extremely well in- formed about everything that happens In Northern France, where the popu- lation Is sympathette and where many agents, kirgely officer followers. of Gen. de Gaulle, have been drop- ped by parachute.
Dame Of Sark's
Message
So Angus MacLean, editor und publisher for the past 22 years, used a column of the "boller plate" as a speelni feature,
Where Beer Is
Still Free
A man who was visiting Win- chester recently was glad to find that the war had not stopped the ancient custom
it beer of serving free
cient charitable institution in
first week produced over
$1,000,000 . will
to
will you help
double that
that figure before
the country, the medieval hos- June pital of St. Cross, Winchester, where they have been given to genuine wayfarers for more than
Nowaday, the amount of beer and
A five-word message received in London recently by Richard 800 years. Beaumont announced that his mother, Mrs Sibyl Collings Benu-bread is rationed. It was formerly mont Hathaway, Dame of Sark, unlimited and his stop-father, Robert American tourists, were so numerous Hathaway, were safe.
that it was decided to restrict the
but callers, including
It was the first news of the Dame total amount served to two gallons
of Sark since the Island was occu- of ale and two leaves of bread daily.
Privileged visitors to. St Cross are
17, 1941? $148,000 is
all that is required.
"But the pilot was smiling and pled by Die Germans, handing round cigarettes. He looked about forty, spoke excellent English, in the English Channel, The mes-horn goblets, one of which was used
Sark is one of the small islands served with beer in heavily allvered Donations to Date: $1,852,453.26 and seemed to know this part of the sage was sent by way of Berlin and by the Inte King Edward VII. when
The went there many years ago.
The Admiralty announced that the country well."
Now York.
Remitted to London: £114,889.19.6d