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NANCY
FEEL AWFUL LAZY---
I THINK I'LL MAKE SLUGGO.
DO ALL THE HOUSE
CLEANING.
TODAY!
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
I'M SORRY I PROMISED TO GO OVER AN HELP NANCY WITH HER HOUSE CLEANIN!---
- I'M TOO TIRED!
May 12, 1941
By Ernie Bushmiller
'DIS'LL GIVE ME A
GOOD EXCUSE!
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SCIENCE "MAKES" LEMONS
When a bottle which had been sealed for two years was recently opened at Bristol Uni- versity Research Station it was known that the answer had been found to the shortage of oranges and lemons.
And these scientific citrous fruit juices contain very much more health-giving vitamin C than the natural fruits.
This was explained by Mr V. L. S. Charley, who is chiefly responalble for the new syrup.
"Doctors wrote and asked if we could produce a natural juice which could be bottled and giver as con- centration doses of vitamin C," said Mr Charley.
"Actually we were already think- ing along the same lines, and had hottled some juice two years ago and again 12 months later.
Little Sugar
"We have Just opened these bot- tlus.
"We found that by our process the juice 12 months old contains 100 per cent. more vitamin C than fresh oranges or lemons, and that after two years the vitamin C content is more than 50 per cent, the content of fresh clirous fruits.
"This Juice has the added advan tage of requiring little sugar.
"Besides being a valuable product for the preservation of health In
drink."
wartime the julee is a most palatable
Lost Arm- And Chance Of Husband
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woman
CREW DID IT-Smoke rises from the burning German ship Eisenach, set on fire by its crow in the harbour of Puntarenas to prevent the Government of Costa Rica from solzing it. The Italian liner Fella was similarly fire d. Police arrested 120 men from both ships and charged them with arson.
Majority Of Americans Believe Naval And Air Aid Will Be Sent
A majority of the American people believe the chances that the U.S. eventually will send a naval and air force to Europe are 50-50 or better, the latest Fortune sur- Vey of public opinion revealed.
the survey showed. Using the same sampling methods that enabled About 60 per cent. of the American people hold this view Fortune magazine to forecast the popular majorities of President Roosevelt in 1936 and 1940, the magazine also found that:
Only about one-third of the people are in favour of sending any armed forces to Europe.
More than 60 per cent favour sending a half or more of our arms to aid Britain.
Americans thoroughly believe that Hitler wants to dominate barrister the U.S.
A young was praised by the Appeal Court judges in London recent ly for her cloquent appeal on behalf of another young woman who had her left arm torn off In a machine in a Liverpool rope works.
In its April issue, Fortune slated that the west-north-central states]
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Lights Traced home for Lance Cpl Charles
By Compass
GESTAPO CAN'T STOP THIS
In splio of the Gestapo, a clandestine newspaper appears regularly in Belgium and is widely circulated.
It is "La Libre Belgique" (Free Belgium), which Was published throughout the Ger- man occupation in the last war.
Some distributors have been ar- rested, but there are dozens willing to replace each. arrested man,
Even if Himmler's sleuths should find the secret printing plant, there are several emergency plants ready to carry on.
A Flemish paper, "Vrij Belgie," is also being secretly circulated.
Sabotage
Continued sabotage is forcing the Nazi authorities to increase the num→ ber of their secret police and to take, further drastic measures,
Antwerp's curfew has been ad- varced to 9.30 p.m.
The German authorities have an nounced that they will reintern all released prisoners of war in Antwerp and nearby towns if there is further sabotage.
Country Pillaged
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situation in that country is catas-spellbound in their factory canteen recently as pilots told them Fifteen hundred men and women making giant bombers sat trophic.
pain at the height of the Civil War. The country, pillaged and robbed, presents a picture comparable with
The Soviets Found Three Million Jobs
pilots-a 19-year-old D.F.C. hero who had made 32 raids on their adventures with the machines the workers had built.
Afterwards some of the women ran and kissed one of the Germany and Italy.
Men workers produced their! driving licences for the pilots to autograph, on the part mark- ed "endorsements." Girls had their works identity cards signed.
"Bale Out"
Decision By September
Bronzed and ft after his 12,000-
One 26-year-old pilot was too shy mile tour of the United States, fifty- to tell his story of a seven-mile two public speeches and scores of swim in the sen for 04 hours. It visits to America's vital war factories, was read A squadron-leader. Sir Walter Citrine, arriving home, Here it is:
said that the United States' effort to help Britain should reach decisive proportions by September next.
by
"While making a night rald and flying at 6,500 feet we ran Into a bad storm. The aircraft was badly leed up. We were fly- ing blind.
The entire peak of the strength of this mighty effort probably would not be touched before the middle of next. The year.
Army life is just home from
Curtis, of the Royal Engineers.
When he returned to England | Workers and employees in from France last summer he the national economy of the was sent to a University town. U.S.S.R._now total 30,100,000, He remained there until-few | compared with 27,000,000 In weeks ago, when he learnt he was to 1937.
These figures were given to his home town.
the eighteenth Communist
"The port engine packed up. Party Conference by M. Voz-
rear gunner then reported that the nesensky, vice-chairman of the port.engine was on fire. This didn't and chairman of the State Com-six airmen in the plane) Council of People's Commissars rem to worry us much (there were Mrs-Roosevelt Says went on until we thought we saw mission.
some searchlights, which meant the. crast this moment the other engine tool issue with a report from Miss
"At
Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt recently conked out. The captain then order- Frances Perkins' Department ed the crew lo bale out.
"My parachule
Labour recommending less frivolity opened all right, in women's hats for the sake of in- and I realised I was dropping into dustrial stabilisation.
Special observer sections to detect premises from which light, ́shows during the black-out have been fornied by a number of provincial be transferred to Alton, Hampshire police forces in England. are innst opposed to war, with two- at: vantage points about the towns, found the authorlites had
Members, who are posted in huts And when he renched Alton he billeted the use of ships and planes, and glasses, maps and compasses, thirds of their inhabitants opposing:
are equipped with powerful night | him -
Du his wife. three-quarters against using in army. When a light is scena compass me street as the mess a matter What's more, his home is in the Hitler Question Tested More than two out of every three quarters are notified by telephone of
bearing is taken and police head-or ten doors away.
"It's just grand while it lasts," Miss Margaret Hughes, the
Americans belleve that Hitler the location of the
Lance-Corporal Curtis sald. premises con-
"But wants to dominate the U. S., the injured woman, usked the Court
cerned.
you never know in the Army when survey showed, and this proportion to increase the £1,500 damages
Several effenders have already the next shift comes." held true regardless of the form in awarded to her by Mr Justice which the question was submitted. been convicted as Stable against her employers,
To test it, the magazine asked one activities of the observers. Garnock Ribby and Company, group a question loaded with inter- Kroup an impartial question, a second Ltd.
ventionist bias,
and a third a
Buglies, submitted that it was quite viewpoint. In each instance the re- Inadequate,
sult was the same.
A
result
of the
Mr E. G. Hemmerde, K.C., for Miss question phrased from the isolationist Woman Detective
Terrible Handicap
Miss Eileen Agnes MacDonald, who was with Mr Hemmerde, also ad- dressed the court,
"By the loss of her arm the whole world comes tumbling down for this girl," she said.
"Every moment of her working life she must feel the
terrible handicap.
"Where there are people with two arms available who would employ a gri with only one?
Appeal Fails
"And what are her chances of marriage? Very slender, I sub- mit. It is nb use blinking the fact that the loss of an arm is a terrible disfigurement for a girl." Lord Justice Scott said Miss MacDonald had
an eloquent mude appeal, but it was not the practice of the court to interfere with the decision of a judge, sitting without
damages
a Jury, except where the were so large or so small as to make plain that justice had not been donc.
It
Lords Justices Mackinnon
Nearly three-quarters of those In- terviewed thought the effect on, the future well being of the U.S. would be "very serious" in the event of a Hitler victory.
Marries
Full Freedom For U.S.
Press
Replying to Congressional fears that the United States Ad- Hunted I. R. A. Men Miss Katharine Sanderson, a young
ministration contemplates intro- woman detective, whom members of duction of censorship, Mr Lowell the Special Branch at Spotland Yard Mellett, head of the Government described as brilliant, was married Reports Office, told a Senate In another article, Fortune stated Covent Garden, recently
the Scottish National Church, Committee that he does not be- that cur steel capacity will almost
to P.C. lieve in censorship. certainly have to be expanded sul Alexander Mackay, of Strathpeffer. Miss Sanderson was attached to the
Armament Demands
at
further to meet the demands of the) armament programme unless con- Special Branch when the L.B.A. Gute sumption in civilian industries Is rages begun. She trailed two of the lenders and was one of the women drastically curtailed.
Seventeen international
arte detectives referred to as "Miss A" declared in a article, that the und "Miss B" during the trial at the
third
Old Bailey. U.S. must begin now to take a
experts
share of the responsibility for post- When the war began she carried war reconstruction. They advocated out many important secret inquiries
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"Neither," he added, "does the military censorship in time of war. President. We contemplate only when we shall also censer mails and cables going abroad.
"But there will be no restriction or newspapers and radios or on the expression of opinion."
"If we
wont
The 1941 plan provided for at | increase of the number of workers
and employees up to 31,000,000.
Elementary and secondary school pupils would reach 38,200,000 In 1041-2, an increase of 3.4 per cent. compared with 1040-1. Students In Institutions of higher learning would be 657,000, a growth of 13 per cent.
War of Motors catch our people unawares, we must no 'accidents' to keep our powder dry and spare no means for the production of acro- planes, tanks, armaments. warships and munitions," said M. Voznesensky.
This war, he said, was a war motors.
Soviet means of production 1840, compared with those of 1939, bad increased by 13.8 per cent., and by 52 per cent. compared with 1937,
of
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Young Nazi Called
Educate Evacuees Blockheads
that America and Britain form a de- for the Yard. She resigned her post- Queensland Schools mocratic bloc with enough power to tlon In view of her marriage. dictate the termination of the present war and the character of the next peace.
DISASTER SQUAD
RESTRICT TRAVEL TO GIBRALTAR Authorities
Gibraltar have
it
Educational assistance for evacuee children from Great Britain, Hong- kong and Singapore, is to be under-
by secondary
schools taken Queensland, Australia.
The Brisbane Crammar School is
Eight years of Nazl rule have succeeded in making young Ger. mans more stupid.
"Striking examples," says the "Hamburger Tageblatt," "seem
A motor-cycle "disaster squad" to limited to a specified route all traffic act in emergencies where speed is at over the isthmus that links Gibraltar ondi
a premium has been formed by 10 with the Spanisis mainland. Fines offering Ove evacuee scholarships, young men at Marlon, Ohio, Each of were ordered for persons ap- exempting the winners from pay-to confirm the assertion that the members has completed a first aid proaching forbidden orgas where med of bees, beach of this generation is less intelli-
Goddard concurred, and the appeal was dismissed.
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ALARM CLOCKS AIR FORCE PADRE
The "very serious shortage"
of alarm clocks was discussed
at question-time in the House
of Commons recently.
"Repairs are increasingly difficult,” sald Capt Sir Ian Fraser, M.P., "and alarm clocks are a necessity to
.workers..
ment of
SC Schools are offering | reduced to all overscan British gent:
children now lying in Queensland.
Other schools in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne are reported, to be preparing similar scholarships or re- duction of fees for 1941.
"Professional schools complain that | they cannot do their proper work because they have first to teach their puplis elementary subjectą."
The "Tageblatt," admitting that the majority of boys coming out of the schools now cannot even read or write properly, trien to excuse it.
Though elementary "education ro Broadcasting recently on behalf of sults admittedly invite criticisms," it A Royal Air Force, chaplain, who defied a' hail of machine.the Royal National Lifeboat Institu KAYB !'our youth ส healthier gun bullets to rescue the crew of a crashed plane, has been
politically
AWARDED G.M.
awarded the George Medal.
He is the Rev. Stanley Wil- He then took over supervision of
3,300 SAVED
AT SEA
lon, the chairman, Sir Godfrey War-biologically and
Ing, said that in 10 months of war lifeboatmen had saved more than
minded."
more
3,300 lives. They had saved a bee Zoo Chimp Saved By
M. And B. 693
"Will the President of the Board liam Harrison, who is 30 years the rescue work and led the Bre every four hours since the war be- o Trade make an exception in this
picket.
caso and permit increased supplies?" old.
he added.
Mr Lyttelton regretted that for exchange reasons it had been neces- sary to limit the imports of alarm clocks.
"A good many clocki which have already been licensed should arrive within the next few months, and the position will be reviewed before the autumn."
third,
One night last November an air- He pulled out a second member craft crashed and burst into flames of the crow and helped remova a three miles from an aerodromo,
Though it was not his job to do Ro, Mr Harrison jumped on an am- bulance, and went to the scene.
Flames were leaping skywards and machine-gun bullets exploding, yet the padre plunged into the wreckage. and dragged out one of the crew.
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Bays the official account of his bravery. "He displayed the most courage and an entire dis regard for his own safety." His wife lives at Clare, Suffolk. He served with the Advance Air Striking Force in France.
Rais.
CRUSADER CHAPEL
DISCOVERED
Workmen digging foundations for new buildings near Parliament House have turned up the remains of a Crusader chapel, with fresco pletures In French diyle. The discovery was made on Beirut's level of the eleventh century,/
M. and B.893; the new drug which has proved so successful in curing saved the life of George, n' London pneumonia and other illnesses, has Zoo chimpanzoo.
The Zoo's doctors had given up hope. George was dying of pneumonia,
how drug, gave some to George, and _' Then' one of them thought of the
the chimpanzee is now.recovering
the sea.
we
Swam Till Dawn "When I plunged into the sea, I must have gone down to a pretty! good depth, I came up with a terrific rush.
Let Hats Be Wild
of
"It might be much less trouble," declared the President's wife at press conference, "but awtally dull." "I'm all for freedom," she added. Hats, Mrs Roosevelt went on to "I thought I was going out to sea, wild as long as women's tastes are say, cannot be prevented from going sot jettisoned the parschule and capricious. boots and began to swim.
grew
"I kept on swimming unti dawn. When At last it light I saw I was about three- quarters of a mile from the coast.
Chinese Classic Play Revived
The China Institute, in Britain,
a kind of last effort. Some soldiers oxists to promote Anglo-Chinese cul-
"I took off my trousers and made rushed out and helped me in. heard one of them Bay, 'Is he Jerry?"
U.S. GIRLS DANCE FOR KING FAROUK
Itural relations. With the object of
a getting its work more widely known, it recently staged a performance of two acts of "Lady Precious Stream," under the direction of S. 1. Hslung, the author.
In the name part was Joyce. Red- man, who played it during much of Four American girls in a song and the long West End run. Her gar- dance team who have been enter- dener husband was William Hutchi- taining cicers of the British Mediter son. He played this part in the New ranean Fleet in Alexandria night York production in 1937, returning clubs recently gave commard per- to the stage after an interlude formance before King Farouk. M.P. for Romford.
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