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MOUNTAINOUS country-This scene in northern Slovenia, near the Yugoslavia-Gor- man frontier, shows the mountainous country whore the Yugoslavs plan gave stubborn
resistance against Nazi invaders.
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Poorest Boy Has Chance Now To Enter Dartmouth Naval College
Scholarships to enable the pick of Britain's youth-from all classes of the community--to be trained at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, were recently an- nounced in Parliament. Mr A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, said that in addition to the present system of entry; which would continue unaltered, thirty scholarships a year would be offered to candidates from grant-aided secondary
Noval M.P.s will In addition, further scholarships
urge the First .schools..
to a number of not more than ten
Lord to grant midshipmen from secondary and private schools a subsistence allowance while at sea of at least £50 a year.
The poorest parents, he said, would be relieved of all the boy's training expenses, includ- ing cost of uniform, clothing and travelling expenses and, if; necessary, provision for the boy's maintenance during the -holidays
Ten scholarships will be granted at each entry, the first being in Sep tember.
on each occasion, will be given to from grant-alded boys not coming secondary schools and one to the son of a rating or ex-rating outside the open scholarships.
What It Costs
The tees for Dartmouth are £50
term.
It is estimated-that-the-parent-hus- to pay a total of £840 up to the time the cudet becomes a midshipman, when he is expected to be self-sup- porting.
Mr Alexander said that the Ad- mirally thought they could manage un their pay (5s, a day) if they were careful.
May 16, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
WAIT --- YOU "MUST TAKE
OFF YOUR
COAT FIRST!
Marx Brothers To Retire From Films
THE Marx brothers have announced in Hollywood that they are retiring after they finish making their present film. The brothers are Harpo, Groucho, and Chico.
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After he retires, Harpo, "dumb" member of the Marx Bro- thers troupe for 20 years, expects to do much talking in a play for British war relief fund. He recently gave evidence at the trial of Joseph Schenck; film executive, on a tax evasion charge.
Asked by counsel, "Can you} talk?" Harpo replied:
"Oh, I
£2,446 from Schenck. I hell plenty aces."
yes,
Won
Chico Marx intends to form ! band. Groucho wants to be a writer,
Groucho Marx told Los Angeles reporters that he and his brothers I thought the public had almost reach- ed the point of being Bred of their Bims.
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Pepsi-Cola HEATE
The two leading heavyweights
"Our stuff is stale-and- so are of the US. soft drink industry,
we."
Groucho said:
Good Musicians
All the Marx brothers are splendid
Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola, will
fight it out in court soon when three-year-old monopoly ar
musicians, Their mother trained tion brought by Pepsi comes to therm from childhood for stage trial, reports "P.M."
careers.
The suit is based on Pepsi's insistence that there is such a
The brothers first appeared in vaudeville acts with their mother. thing as a cola industry and
They had immediate success with their first lm, "Coconuts," followed by "Horsefeathers," "Duck Soup," "A Night at the Opera," "A Day at the Races," and other hits.
Academy
Paintings Censored
that Coca seeks to monopolise it.
Pepsi-Cola, runner up to Coca- Cola, has applied to the court for an injunction against its com- petitor. It charges:
That the Coca-Cola Co. buys out competitors.
That it threatens law sults against retailers who try to sell other cola drinks when a coke is called for.
That it threatens lawsulto against anyone who uses Cola (with a capital (c) to
to advertise any cola drink other than Coca-Cola,
them
That the Coca-Cola Co. tried and falied to buy out Pepsi-Cola and then tried to drive Pepsi out of business Some of this year's Royal by instituting lawsuits in various Academy pictures have gone to states against retailers and charging for em with substituting Peps! the Censor.
"A number of artists who have Coca.
That the Coca-Cola Co. falsely as- been painting from war subjects have voluntarily submitted their paintings serted that the Pepsi trademark in- fringed on the Coca-Cola trademark. to censorship," an official said.
"Although there will be no official
Counter-Claim In examination of the Royal Academy the Coca-Cola answer and the it is said that exhibition, any artist whose painting counter-claim commits a breach of
began business in 1886 and that they to allow a boy to pay his share to- Published reproductions of works have spent $00,000,000 in advertising wards mess and sports funds, and to thing in the Academy will be watch- to make the public conscious of the
Coca-Cola nume
And of course cover shore leave expenses and the ed for censurable matter. cost of holiday clothes.
This year's Academy, which open-Coca-Cola doesn't like the familiar ed on May 3, is smaller than usual sound of the name Pepsi-Cola. because one-third of the galleries has Coca-Cola points out, too, that the been bombed.
Naval men suy this is not enougbo-liable-to-prosecutgulations will Coca-Cola Co. and its predecessors
on
June
17,
1940,
the
Bomber Fund was commenced
the first week produced over
$1,000,000
to
double
will you help
that figure before
June 17, 1941? . $100,000 is
all that is required.
Donations to Date: $1,900,114.37
Remitted to London: £116,889.19.6d.
Canada's 40,000 Airmen
Canada, which had fewer than 5,000 airmen at the outset of the war, now has more than 40,090, Sir Her-
bert Ames asserted recently,
advertising colour scheme of Pepsi (red and white) is similar to Coca- Cola. and charges that Pepsi has en- couraged its dealers to sell its pro- duct as a substitute for "the pouse that refreshes."
"Wrens" Serving In Malaya
A contingent of the Women's Royal
The veteran Member of the Cana-Naval Service-popularly known as dian Parliament, in prepared the "Wrens" has arrived in Singa
University's pore. address for Boston
Graduate School Alumni Association,
The "Wrens" will be engaged on listed the three tasks assigned to the wireless dutica and all have spe Royal Conadian Air Force as its con- clalised technical knowledge."
The women looked very smart in tribution in the war.
"First," he said, "It is to be used their white duck uniform with its for home defence, second for over distinguishing blue and gold wireless sens fighting, and finally for supply crest on the collar, says the "Straits
train ing Instructors to
lacoming Times." The uniform is completed cadets."
by a white panama hat.
Goose Skins
English
Make Powder Puffs
POWDER PUFFS made from English goose-skins instead of Polish and French; iodine from seaweed, which is also being used to replace potash fertilisers that used to come from Germany and Alsace-Lorraine-there are two examples showing how the war is causing Britain to make greater use of her own are rediscovering their craft now that Old rural industries, indeed, iron can no longer be spared. are coming into their own again Clothes-peg makers are replacing now that they are freed from German pegs. foreign competition.
resources.
With the shortage of wood the Cornwall net makers have been busy makinig nets for the county's broccoli crop this year-in place of wooden containers.
Throughout the winter, woodlands all over Britain which for years have hardly known the foot of man, have sounded to the woodman's axe and the beat of the tractors as they draw logs away to sawmills.
Charcoal Kilns of a modern type' Woods Alive Again... have revived charcoal burning. The product is used in munition making. For now we must turn to our own Umber resources, so 'long neglected. The woods are alive again, and chest- Long neglected willow and ouler nut trees are being converted into beds have once more known the bill-cleft chestnut paling.
Baskets For Shells
hook this winter,, for wicker baskets
The demand for walking sticks, are no longer coming in. from Hol-| land, Wicker is being used for pack coming largely from milliary hos
|frig medical slorés for the Army and pitals, has revives v meeting's big
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