NANCY
SLEEPING ON HIS
BROOM AGAIN----
TSK TSK!
HEY
WAKE
UP!
Wednesday,
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YEP!
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·HERE! -- TAKÉ THIS OUT TO THE YARD AND BEAT
ALL THE DUST:
OUT OF
IT!
________ May 7, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
--AND DON'T,
LET ME SEE YOU LOAFING
AGAIN!'
$30
Ford Wants Youth In Government, Approves U.S. Defence Training
Henry Ford would like to see more young men running the United States Gov- ernment and believes the defence programme will be "educational to that end.”
The Detroit automobile maker suggests that government should function along industrial pattern and predicted that objectors to war "will make themselves heard" in America..
"If our young men are to do our fighting, why can't they run the country?" the industrialist asked in an interview recently,
"The defence programme will serve to build our youth physically, train them in leadership, and at the same Time introduce many of them to new vocations.
"With this training behind them, more young nen will enter publie office and the nation will be better olt, for the old bends have made a botch of things in many quarters.
"Government ought to be modelled more after industry, with advance
ment
on in office based entirely ability and record of service."
Skilled Men Needed
On the subject of defence education, he sak:
and
CLERK LIBELLED
ON BOOKMARK
Libelled on n bookmark, George Frederick Congdon, Town Clerk of Harwich, was, awarded £100 damages at Essex Assizes at Chelmsford recently,
WIN
He sued John Elliott, proprietor of a circulating library at Dovercourt, and a former member of Harwich Town Council,
Mr Harold Brown, for Mr
the libel Congdon, said printed Un bookmarks which Elliott inseried in each book he passed over to his customers.
Found Unfit
"The defence programme has The statement complained of al- brought out vividly that this coun-leged that Mr Congdon was unit for try nerds more men skilled in the office of Town Clerk, that he was trades. By skilled I mean Just corrupt and that he had evaded ser- that, not a mere smattering of a vice in the Navy by making false subject.
statements.
Mr Congdon was formerly for 20 "So many of our selibol graduates years in the accountants' branch of lack specialised training and have the Nayy. particular destination when they sel
When, as a pensioner, he was call- out upon the sea of conxmerce. amed up for medical examination on glad to note that vocational schools the outbreak of war he was dis- and courses are springing up rapidly charged as totally unfit. Throughout the antion.
"fil-Tempered"
Works Shut To Help Arms Drive
Many factories in Great Britain will cease production in the next few months, and their work-people released to make munitions Forces.
or 'service in
the
Industries mainly affected will be those where war conditions have led to reduced production.
"The danger in this programme of vocational schooling is that we may Elliott became a member of Har-
But even here where production in get too far away from the funda-wich Town Council in 1924, and Mr mentals of education. We must re- Brown described him as ill-tempered. an industry has not been reduced, effelent concentration of manufac- tain the basic education too"
"Ile presumed a knowledge above that of everybody else, including ture may make some undertakings the Borough officials, and," Mr unnecessary.
"created Brown said,
the most dreadful and undignified scenes in the Council chamber."
BLITZ MIRACLE
out
Shoe Trade
For ten years William Albert Bow-
The union and employers la the den, aged 54, of Winchum, near Elliot!, whe conducted his own boot and shoes Industry have already Northwich, was bedridden. Now he case, said his object in publishing made a preliminary survey, which is looking for a job. He had the the statements was to draw attention shows that this industry could, with
Jurt, blitz to thank for the mirage. After to a matter about which the public
release # substantial a long spell of liness, Bill Bowden ought to know.
percentage of Its men. Mr Justice Atkinson, granting an became paralysed. Then came the
Similar surveys are proceeding. In blitz. As he lay in bed bomb injunction to restrain further pub- other Industries, at the invitation of -rocked the house. Suddenly, he eatlon, said a less honourable and
the Minister of Labour. felt what he describes as "a tup" more contemptible procedure--on-This-is-part-of-the-plan-fore- down his spine, and was bathed in Elliott's part It would be difficult to shadowed by Mr Bevin when he
"top" -perspiration. The
became conceive.
conferred recently with representa- It was obvious he was netunted by tives of both sides of industry on his more frequent, and after ten days he found he could walk,
molice.
man-power proposals.
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on
Jun
17,
1940,
the
Bomber Fund was commenced.
the first week produced over
$1,000,000
will you help
to double that figure before
June 17,
17, 1941?
$123,000 is
all that is required ●
Donations to Date: $1.877,657.96.
Remitted to London:: £116,889,19,6d.
MAR-10
IT'S
Sumaire TIME... AT
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"SUNAIRE"
VENETIAN BLINDS
IN AN EFFORT to improve school air-raid shelters Manchester is experimenting with fireplaces. Here are workmen putting the finishing touches to a substantial specimen in Wythenshawe school.
Four Men
and A Girl
Flew A Glider
Adventures of four men and a girl who flew a glider without authority were described recently at Eastleigh (Hants).
Accused under the Defence Regulations, Ronald Edward Clear, London Road, Purbrook, was fined £5.
Frank Sidney Walker Jolliff,; Dover Road, Portsmouth; Albert Frank Parslow, Connor Road, Portsmouth; Edward Jeremiah Hudson and Audrey Mary Barry, both of Woodman Inn, Purbrook, were all bound over.
Blood Donors” Morning After
Exhilarating Feeling
Seen by Hundreds
A Sydney doctor recently said Superintendent E. Pragnell said that among the people who that a glider was seen in the sky, by volunteer for blood transfusions hundreds of people and 'caused a certain amount of concern."
some become almost addicts.
"They like the exhilaration one ex- periences, the morning after having given a transfusion,
Clear sald that he was a pilot and hoped to become
test pilot. A firm made inquiries about the glider for to he decided overseas sule, and obviate a previous fault.
He went to test the glider to gether with his friends, who had no idea that what he proposed wAN illegal. Ito Fot the machine almost to the bottom of a hill and Intended to do a short ground bop
to test the stability.
Will
Air Current. Rising air currents from the caused the glider to rise. He could have landed immediately, but the speed would have risen beyond the) safe limit,
The only alternative was .to By away from the lift, which he did," and landed as soon as possible.
FOREIGNER BUYS
CHINA BONDS
"We do not recommend people to give more than one transfusion in three months..
"An American, who
gave 300. transfusions, is believed to hold the world's record," Five
men, who had each given from 10 to 20 blood transfusions, are al- ready enrolled as emergency donors In case of air raids on Sydney.
One, aged 25, hos » transfusion. every three months, for the past five years.
BABY SAVED
BY DOG
Scratching among debris after an air raid on a Southeast town, Peggy, a little rough-haired terrier, scraped away bricks and rubble from an overturned perambulator in whichr 12 month-old Gwen Warren was im- An Annecymous foreigner in prisoned. His devotion gave the Chungking bought $1,270,000 Chinese baby enough air until policeman war bonds recently, according to the was able to tunnel through and get Wartime Bond Sales Promotion Com- the child out. The policeman also mittee.
rescued the child's mother.
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