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KING'S
TYNESIDERS' FAREWELL TO DEAN WILSON
The Very Rev. J. L. Wilson, who is shortly leaving to assume the Bishopric of Singa- pore, was entertained to a fare well party at the Hongkong Hotel on Tuesday by the Northum berland and Durham Association, when a presentation was made. Photo shows him re-. ceiving the gift from the President, the Rt Rev. Ronald Hall, Bishop of Hongkong. (Photo:
Ming Yuen).
Bevin On New World For Labour
Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour, envisages "a new world for workers everywhere" if) Britain wins the war, in a mes- sage to the American Labour Committee to Aid British Labour.
Allied Aid Committee Discloses Supporters
The Committee to Defend America bý Alding the Allies has made public a 'full list of all contributors of $100 or more, the America First Committee, its opponent on all-out aid to Britain, having failed to accept its challenge to publish a similar list at the time the Allied-Aid Committee's list was released.
Answering the recent declaration of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, that the Allied-Aid Committee was a tool of international bankers and a piece of British war propaganda, Ernest W. Gibson, Chairman of the Committee, declard that the contributors' names spoke for themselves.
He had questioned earlier
Speaking of sacrifices the whether inquiry into the backery
British must make "to overcome of the America First Committee Man Who Made
the evil forces which confront would not yield up a strange! us," Mr Bevin concluded:
conglomeration of business ap His Own Law
POST-WAR PLANS FOR BRITONS
Britain already is laying plans for fitting her millions of khaki-clad Tommies, seamen, airmen and plain civil wardens back into the pattern of civilian life when this war ends.
Will they head immediately for home? Not unless they have! a trado or skill important to the big job of post-war reconstruc- tion-such is the implication of the findings of a Government committee studying the demo- bilisation problem.
The "Dally Mail" outlined the plan on the basis of tentative recom. mendations of the group assigned to 'study the problems of rehabilitation and rebuilding.
Transition From War
To Peace
Mr W. J. Brown, general secre- tary of Britain's Civil Service Clerical Association, broadcast-
The committee was given the as signment of planning orderly de- mobilisation of millions of soldiers, ing recently, said that any at saitors, ahmen and Air Raid Precau- tempt to solve the problems of tion Service workers to avold a transition from war to peace or repetition of the confusion and suffer-party lines would be fatal. ing when the veterans of the last
war were thrown bell-mell into an
Stay In Uniform
“Mr. Churchill, in his aside in
already floundering labour market. the House of Commons a week or so ago," he said, "made it The newspaper appraisal indicated plain that he and the Govern- that the committee would recom
of en
mend that the men stay in uniform ment realise this. He contem- unless they have had professional or plates the continuance of Nation. skilled inbour training in the fields al Government for a defined public utilities or period after the war, and a engineering, building trades. whereby £ new national approach to the prob- London and new England may arise. lems of the transition period.
With these reconstruction specio- Hists having priority, it was said the committee probably would advise that the Government retain the others in the fighting services until trade fully revived and jobs were
available.
BRITISH HOME GUARD ALERT
British airmen öbliged to bale out of machines damaged in air ducs frequently meet with dificulties in convincing re sidents of rural England that they are fighting on the right side.
Returning to Canada from the
"There is, I think, ground for ressonable hope that, when this war cads, we shall not slip back into the old ways, and that the principle of economic security will find its place in the world which we are rebuild- ing when war is done.
"Peace, economie security, fellow- ship-It may be that only out of the crucible of such ordeals as we are now experiencing the golden metal of these things could come."
College Girls Wash Dishes
wash dishes may be a little old-
The girls who don't like to
air wars in the United Kingdom, fashioned, or maybe they don't -Wing Commander-Ernest-McNab do-it-the-modorn-way,
of Regina said the country folk
and home guard patrols were so on the alert that British airmen
German parachutists,
That is the opinion of Miss Blanche Taneli, professor of dietetics of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina; and experience has dietetics at Every
all possible assistance will be given sincere but misguided Ameri-Scotland, recently a 29-years-old were often suspected of being taught hedent taking
before it too late. can meet the blows successfully we Slightly more than 700 contributors shall together be able to build a new
world for workers everywhere.
"I ask with confidence that Ameri-peasers, Bundists, Communists, ean labour will see to it that the Fascists, and, of course.
some At Selkirk Sheriff Court, sacrifice will not be in vain and that
labourer, when charged declared | If together we cans."
out of a total of 14,619 gave $100 or that he was a law-maker. He was more to, the Committee to Defend William Brockie, residing at Amerten by Aiding the Allies, ne-Ladhope Hostel, Galashields, and cording to the list made dvailable. the charge, was of failing to pro- Those who gave $100 or more fur-duce his national registration nished about one-half of the grandi total of $324,450 so far collected, identity card. when required to the average of all contributions being do so by the police.
He, pleaded not gulity, and said
to
Solomon's Idea Didn't Work
A man and a woman went recently
the Fillmore Street Court in Chicago, cucli claiming possession of a dog.
to his rightful owner.
$22.
Playwright's Donation
The largest contributor was Robert Sherwood, author and playwright, who gave $5,000 to start a fund for
that be passed a law for himself In 1937, and laws made by others did not affect him.
He had as much right to make laws the insertion Inst June of full-page as anyone. He said he based this
It was decided, in the best Solo-advertisement in the newspapers on the Bible, and if the Bible were manic style, that, if the dog were entitled "Stop Hitler Now," which he to be contradicted it would be a bad unleashed, he would proceed directly wrote when the German armies were job.
completing the conquest of France. The Fiscal said he was not sure He was freed, and, without # A group of about 50 playwrights, it accused was playing a game. moment's hesitation, bounded into publishers, composers, novelists and Accused was remonded for the pur- the lap of
stage and screen actors collaborated pose of exaunination as to fitness to The Judge.
with him in the fund.
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the college is assigned to a week of washing dishes in a thorough course, and they enjoy that more than any- thing else," Miss Tanell declares.
Emphasis On Art
Needed Convincing "Recently," he said, "one of our Canadian fliers was forced to come down on a farm.
As he approached a burn he was contronted by a burly farmer pointing a gun at સૌ menacing
"In fact," she said, "some of the angle. A short distance behind him girls find it fascinating, and one of came the handy man carrying a huge them became so Interested that sle cudgel, while bringing up the rear made a study of the art," she put was the housewife wielding an iron emphasis on the word art. skillet.
Miss Tancil, whose department is "It took considerable arguing on rated as the fifteenth best in America the Canadian's part to convince the sald the dish-washing machines in trio he was a real Briton, despite his Charlotte were "simply grand." accent."
Nazis Seize Federal Units.
In Europe Paris Silks
Dr Benes's Plan
Dr Benes, President of the Czecho-Slovak Republic, envi-
For 'Chutessaged what the new Europe
should be after the war when Stories of growing disorder in addressing Liverpool Univer- German-occupied Paris, worsensity recently. ing of the food situation there He suld it would be necessary to and Nazi seizure of silks to make create a new system which would parachutes, were related by pas-successfully prevent the emergence sengers who recently returned to ot a new Hitler or Mussolini. This would involve the creation of new America from Lisbon.
federal units in different parts of Europe.
Donald MacAfee, who won a Croix de Guerre, for service with the There must be at least a partial French Foreign Legion, said he and limitation of economie collaboration his wife left Paris because the "bread which would overcome the economic was literally filled with sawdust." conflict between the Democracies.
Philip McCabe of New York, a We must not make a retaliatory World
Wor veteran, sald that all pence or attempt to accomplish the silks-underwear, stockings and the destruction of Germany. We must were being talcam from Paris know clearly what to do so that the and that a Nazi ofeer told him the lack of political education in Ger- goods were unwoven In Germany many should not express itself in a and made into parachutes.
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