NANCY
HOW'S YOUR
GARDEN,
AWFUL! NOTHING SEEMS TO GROW!
MAYBE YOU'RE
SLUGGO
HONGKONG
By Ernie Bushmill
BUT I'VE DONES EVERYTHING
IT SAYS IN D' BOOK!
WELL PLANTS
NEED LOTS OF CARE OR THEY JUST EWONITE!
GROW!
ILBM
SOMETHIN
EME:
Boy Helped To Save Trapped Men Father Flanagan of Films In Factory, Gets George Medal
A London boy of 16 has had an-act of rare courage rewarded with the George Medal. The boy, John Cain,`a Hackney costermonger, joined four constables, who also receive George Medals, at a fire at a bombed paint factory. He knew that several people were trapped in a shelter directly under the fire, and after being re- pelled several times by smoke and heat, he managed to join the officers in the base- ment.
All five had to pass through burning wreckage, paint, water, and "live" electric wires dropping round them from the celling. Paint was inches deep on the floor, and soon the rescuers were saturated.
Although part of the base- ment had collapsed, trapping| several men, and the flames were rapidly approaching, the officers and the boy freed six men and carried them on doors and planks to waiting ambulances. A few minutes after the last victim had been removed the whole Interior of the building collapsed.
Dropped His Darts
+
HAPPIEST DAYS AS PIONEER
When the Nazis marched into
Vienna, Leopold Steiner, Labour leader, was thrown into prison.
I found "Buster" Cain, as he is locally known, in the Ridley-street market at Dalston, where he helps his mother to run her vegetable stall when he is not going round with a cester. barrow on his own account, writes a "Dally Telegraph" reporter.
LOVE IS
CURE FOR WOUNDED
DOCTORS in a big military hospital in England find Cupid the best cure in some of their cases.
The mental act of falling in love causes reactions much the same ду the artificial gland
treatment which became famous just before the war.
He was set free through the efforts of the National Union of
The patient may not know it, but when he falls for his nurse he not only feels belter: he IS better. Boot and Shoe. Operations and work was found for him in Lei-tors explained to the "Daily Mirror
"Falling in love" one of the doc- "causes certain chemical reactions in His sweetheart . escaped from the body which are definitely bene- Vienna too and they were married ficial. The thyroid gland particularly in Leicester. He was very difdent about his
Is stimulated, and When war came Steiner was put energy-creating
this liberates hormones part in the incident" which won for in an internment camp-but only whip up the entire system.
which him the coveted George Medal,
"In short, the whole process is a form of natural gland treatment."
"I was in a club near the paint shop having a game of darts at the time, see," he began. "When the bomb fell I ran out and saw the place, on fire. I told a policeman that there were probably some people in
for
few weeks.
"I am enjoying some of the happlest days of my life," he fakt reporter during a week- end visit to Leicester.
the body which are definitely bene- Of his internment, he said: "That blame your Government.
the shelter under the factory, and was a sad day for me, but I did not went in with several policemen to try to find them. There men in the shelter, and we managed to get them all out.
Some Dead
were 34
"Then I gnid to the police, There must have been some men working In the factory.' So we went back again. We found them in the tar. corner in a heap. Some of them "were dead, but there were some sill!] alive, and these we also managed to get out. That's all there was to it."
"And what did you do after- wards?" I asked.
"I was treated like a human be- ing heavenly experience com- pared with what I went through at the hands of the Nazis."
Rugby Star
Gives Life
For Sailor
Aids Novel Social Experiment
Father Flanagan, head of Boys Town, with Billy Hunter and Emmet Jones.
Boys Town, the famous Nebraska.community for honicless boys, dramatized in the films, "Boys Town" and the current "Men of Boys Town," is about to tackle a social experiment that not only the film industry but the whole world will watch with interest.
US. Fivers For Blitz Children
Pictures of children sleeping in, London's shelters were pub Ished in United States papers some months ago.“ „Now: comes news or the way in which the pictures, stirred, the hearts of American parents whose own children sleep safely in their beds.
They are "adopting” · hun- dreds of our childron in Blitzed areas.
Through the "Save the Chil- 'dren Fund kind-hearted Amori- cans, are giving £5 each to be spent on a child who has suffer- ed hardship through war condi- tions.
Help For 500
To begh with, 500 children will be helped.
Later, it is thought, thousands wii
benefit..
Miss Mary Sutherland, Chief Woman Officer of the Labour Party, has been asked to spend. the first £2,500 on children to be chosen from victims of Hit- ler's killers oft. Clydeside and Merseyside and in the Midlands and London areas, Local Labour Party women will help her choose the cases.
RAYON CONCERN SOLD
Biggest rayon concern in the United States, the British-con- trolled American Viscose. Cor- poration, has been sold to an American finance group
It was
an American sub- Bidiary of Courtaulds.ne
The deal was announced in New York recently by Sir Edward Pea- cock, British Treasury official.
It transfers what is probably Bri- tain's
most valuable single holding
in the United States as part of the most needy programine to raise dollar exchange, price to be paid will
The
"The money will be spent doing not be until the resale later
good turns for childron who could by the purchasing syndicate. not be given the same help througn
But the purchase contract re-
Atsistance Boards or local authori-quires £10,000,000 on account to the ties," Miss Sutherland said.
Bigger Scheme American families have in mind a much bigger scheme of help.
Special photographs, bearing rames, ages and family history of young children in London have been sent to the United States.
tmuy be that thousands of war-i orphaned and war-shed: children will be
adoptea there by men and women who would be willing to pay for their bringing.
Jose Schenck Resigns
up-
British Government.
In normal times financial quartets have regarded the Viscose Corpora- tion as worth £25,000,000 in the American market.
Gaol For Three
Eire Girls
Three young girls, members of the Eire Civil Service, were each sentenced to two years' im- prisonment at a special criminal court in Dublin recently.
They were Maureen Twomey, Maureen Cullinane and Mary Spli lanc, all of Clontora Park, Drum- conda, Dublin, accused of having in- Joseph M. Schenck's resignation as criminating documents and being a director and beard chairman has members of an unlawful organisa- Twentieth Century-Fox Films. been accepted by the directors of tlon.
Twomey was in the department of Schenck and Joseph H, Moskowitz, local government, Cullinane In the victed recently of income tax evasion. I was in the Post Office. his eastern representative, were con-defence department and Spillane
Five Hundred Blind Men Dig For Victory
to-day because one of their number saw a vision ten years ago Five Hundred blind men are digging for victory in England in Greenwich,
"
Town, went to New Jersey recently Tracy and Mickey Rooney, is a uni- Father Flanagan, head of Boys to be released co-starring Spencer 10 consider the question of taking que institution. Honour codes under either Billy Hunter or Emmett Jones the control of the boys themselves back to his school,
have proved of immense value to training for good citizenship. Billy and Emmett are the two
Wille fourteen year-out youngsters whose of the word a "reform school," but Boys Town is in no serse
pollee from a New Jersey woodland unique juvenile community for the escapade in exchanging gunfire with designed and operated
7.9 solely a Cases of shock react particularly The two boys had run away from ed in the case that in this one in
hideaway attracted national attention. homeless, was felt by those interest- well to falling in love. Even the their homes in Paterson N. After tance. Father Flanagan healing of wounds is accelerated
might make when the system is thus toned up.mited to it they were ordered com- an exception to the
to the Stato Home for Boys work out a plan of living that would the general restric- ont of the home, and undertake to in Jamesburg, N. J.
Public-spirited citizens of New end of a potential criminal
riminal career. and leading educators came Hls often expressed feelings are that
the suggestion that any fourteen year-old youngster Father Flanagan be given a chance metently malleable, under local to try his unusually successful environmental conditions, to develop ethods of invenite correction in the an entirely new outlook on the world case. The Flanagan school, drama-bis place fr it.There is no in the motion picture, "Boys such thing as a bad boy," is Father Town," the new M-G-M picture soon, mark. Town," and again in "Men of Boys Flanagan's most frequent quoted re- epitomise the whole romance of boy purchase, when he
These two men between them of lund in Barbados: to his school- the movement, for they are men Magazine" with an article on Port England, of a copy of the "Cornhill whom blindness overtook in suc-Sunlight as A Garden City for cess and might easily have over Workers"; to his sojourn, when his
News
From Filmdom
1
Jean Arthur will make more money this year than any other actress in Hollywood. "The Devil and Miss Jones, in which Jean plays a poor salesgirl, is expected to net more than $1,000,000. This means at least $250,000 to Miss Arthur, in addition 10 her
of arou salory around
$100,000. Miss Arthur, in conjunction with Commander Charles F. Hal-her director husband, Frank R095+ "I went back and had a drink," laran, R.N.,. the former Irish and writer Norman Krasna, was a he sald.
Rugby international, has died percentage partner in- the production on active service in attempting two more pictures this season for
released by RKO-Radio,
Jean
makes "Buster's" mother said that the
a sailor who had Columbia on her regular salary basis. boy was the youngest of a family of to rescue 13 of whom only four boys survived. fallen into the sca.
Her financial gain for the enture yar "He was a twin with a girl who In a heavy sen the Commander should amount to more than $500,000. died," she said. "He was only 241b was caught between the boat and a
Oberon House Bombed when he was born,
and
for six ship. His head was crushed,
Merle Oberon is showing a picture months we had to keep him
Commander Hallaran played of her London house. It's been in olive oil and cetton
Rugby 15 times for Ireland between bombed twice, but some of it is st 1021 and 1920, and figured pro- standing" she says. Incidentally. minently in Royal Navy and Services most of husband Korda's money is ir sides,
The boy was 16 in Jan
two months after the deed which won In his medal, but with his thick-set, sturdy build and height of over 5ft be could pass for being in his early
20'8.
French
rd with
Grim
I talked in his house at Patcham with Mr Gerald Hewitt, founder and chairman of the Garden Club for the Blind, writes" Hugh Redwood in the "News Chronicle." When he had told me tingdean and introduced me to one of the club's most successful the story of its inception, and development, he took me to Rot- members, Mr Eyre, who gardens at The Wilderness" and has made it blossom as the rose,
camą to
Finis whelmed, the one a financier and sight had gone, in a house at Green-
Manhunt
Wrote
Career
To Native Killer's
It is just a century since one of the greatest manhunts in who killed Chief Factor Samuel Black in Fort Kamloops in 1840. what is now British Columbia, took place. It was for an Italian
The young warrior had no personal grievance against the Hudson's Bay official in charge of the fort, but he fancied that Mr Black had been responsible, through the agency of witch- craft, for the death of a relative.
At Fort Vancouver, the Hud-.
ton's Bay Company's western MOVIE SLAP SENDS
international man of affairs, the wich which had behind it u derelict other an ecclesiastical architect. garden.
Darkness has brought no disaster to either; for each has found a new life and delights in it.
Watch Mr Eyre forking over his soll, his right hand wielding the fork with extraordinary deftness, and the long, slender fingers of his left, feel ing the lifted earth and learning its secrets.
Hear him talk of the peace he en- joys and the sense of productive partnership with nature.
Friendly Policeman
It was the noise of children at play In that garden which made - him: in- quire what the place was like; it was
it
friendly policeman who took the blind man inside to explore it; was there that, the vision came to aim of a "garden club" for blind people.
blindness because of all that has And to-day, I think, he blesses his
sprung from it, particularly, because of those 500 members many of Then get Mr Hewitt to trace his them prize-winning flower. growers
How It Began
England and will remain there fc headquarters, preparations were|MARLENE KOLLINC Garden Club back to its beginnings who are now engaged in producing
He retired from the Navy some the duration of the war, years ago. but rejoined on the out- Robert Montgomery owns a "plece" break of war.
of the stage success, "The Corn 1r Green." He would like to play the Welsh miner role in the movie.
Ex-Leaders
Are Harshly Treated Aftermath in France
VICHY, France, April 25.-The physician attending former French leaders now held at Bourassol Chateau, near Riom, says he has been called to "intervene energetically" against what he called "inhuman treatment" of the fallen statesmen.
Claudette Colbert, according to the ript of "Skylark," had to thumbe with Walter Abel. The latter took a urse in the rhumba and turned u on the set eager to go into his dance It was then discovered that Claudette ould not rhumbo. The scene war cut.
Betty Grable
George Rafi's bodymward-buddy. Black Gray, soya it in't true that George has deserted Belty Grable for the more mature companionchip c Marlene Dietrich, who by a strange coincidence is
is working with Georg in "Manpower Katharine
has been long- The charge was made by De Roulot (sonera spend most of their time distancing Garson Kanin, who
reports in the Parle newspaper "Le Matin," in reading and writing. They are not for army service next month, telling of the living conditions of permitted to have radios. There is Profelte. Goddard calls attention to former premiers Edouard Daludier no set time for getting up and going her new gold mesh neck-laco and and Leon Blum, General Gamelin, to bed, but their doors are locked bracelet set with rubles to match. Alled commander-in-chief, each night and a guard sleeps in front "Did Charlle give you them?" she is former and Guy La Chambre, former air of each
door.
nekter." "No,"*" says Paulette. "Then minister.
The former statesmen hardly ever who?" Paulette merely smiles Authorised circles here soki thai, see one another. They are allowed Paulotte's jewelry collection is the up to now, the Parls newspapera had fun hour's exercise in the court of the talle of the town, been plcturing the prisoners or living chateau each day, but must take it |
In case, and apparently had been separately.
ordered to chunge their tone for some
ACREON,
A Heatless Quarters
ie first to pall me in for consul
Food Sent In
Their food is nont over from the Hotel Dea Voyageurs In Rom and is exactly the same, us, that "served to hotel clients except that the pro- Bshing and
intier, was Gan. Gamelin," Dr Roulet prietor occasionally wrote. "Like the others, he hadn't provides
the slightest heat." I trented him and
in France. what
made a report, as a result of which they are required to give up foot 20 tons of con were placed at the tickets in exchange for disposat of the prisoners and their
prisoners and their they are hot restricted na to the chy clecies explated
guards." Vichy of fuel resulted
Add number of Visits
Malaya's Captain Says Ship Holed
"By Moths"
NEW YORK, April-25. (AP)- British Consul-General Godfrée Haggard. Introduced Capt. A FE Palliser, commander
nade to apprehend the mur lerer.
John Tod, veteran of DOWNSTAIRS
he service, was selected to hend the party.
HOLLYWOOD, April 24-Film
On August 3, Tod and three others actress Marlene Dietrich severely rrived at the deserted post,, "Found sprained her left ankle when George he fort, at least the store and dwell Raft slapped her harder than he in- ng house, locked up; but guarded by tended and knocked her down a be Indian Lalo alone". he wrote in fight of stairs in a movie scene at
is journal.
Warner Brothers Studio. Lalo was a great figure in the arly history of the locally. He was alled Jean Baptiste St. Paut by the whites, and Mount St. Paul is named after him.
two
Tearful and red-faced from resounding blows, Miss Dietrich was alded to her. dressingroom, where a physician treated her swollen discoloured ankle,
and
Hunted Man Tropped All during September the search "Believe me that is the hardest sentinued. Then, on October 1, Tod blow I've ever received," said the confided to his journal, the services actress. "But I ko it. People go of a chief, named Gule were employ to movies to see action and if that's nd to trap the hunted man. They what they want that's what we'll were tragically successful.
give them."
nds with this later
The stor
story ends
Raft was even more upset than "Late in the afternoon Me Cameron Miss Dietrich,
murderer:-
"It was terrible," he exclaimed.
It almost
and party returned, but without the That's the Arst woman I ever leal: being captured in the night struck-and the last one.
midst his relations: In bringing him made me sick."
'0
the Fort, where we intended to
ave himmlung, he made his escape
a crossing the river by upsetting the anoo and nearly drowning the two men who were embarked with: Him. On reaching the opposite side he was wain driven wounded into the river, and being finally, 'cnught In an eddy,
Cockatoo Mourns Its Mistress
A 70-year-old actress named Fan-
on the side which Mr Cameron and nle Law was stricken recently with
his men stood; by them he was kept a heart attack in a Now York tane-
In the water until he sink, to rise no ment. When an ambulance sturgeon shrill voice beckoned. *pia arrived, a
mare"
SISTERS' REUNION" of the British.
Themen Bun, Joar, recently tunched with him to againya hero for repairs,
"Come in."
He entered, examined the woman and found her dead. There was no the absence from the
their families for us to
one else in the dingy two-room from a snowstorm which a heavy, Daladier's
weldest
apartment except a polleeman and a that tied up
Mrs Gertrude Crawford, 78, who white plumed cockatoo which kept physician and his younger son and daughter saying the naval officer told him the sisters Mira Esther Smith, 90% of screeching Coby vaudeville
St George Society dinner by lives in New York, hodnot, sean her pumping Good-bye, one on
about the place; asserted, Gen Gamelle had to make visit the former premier frequently. hole, in the
mother bulls protest to the penitentiary moths."
battleship's
for, 84 years.
how golden o Erdmans ita sjonsrecnund Mir inter and sistmelnya wafer who lives in Lyon, done by mother wilden Outer Royal Caputise mounted Mr Laneka piled M nets bankchanged Korktwo month will along back, phun from the had conditon the Mediterrano, policeman led leavler, hem (2000) Frankeak"), and here rained shiny fact
According to Le Matin, the pristation to the prison.
Fasadike the The cockatooj Jáčkle,!13 but he did not elaborate
words than leat of the acty
was Hamilton,
to the black gardener who gave foodstuffs and marketing them in
him, at the age at five, his first plot paying quantities.
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