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Girl's Ring CausedEnvy In School
A HEADMASTER'S decision that girls bould not wear Jewellery In school "because if caused envy in the minds of other children and turned their minds from the path of educa- ilon" resulted in a father being fined 10s. at Shefeld for not sending his nine-year-old daughter to school.
Harold Webster, radio denler nf Stockbridge, near Sheffield, gave his daughter the signet ring that caused all the trouble.
Mie G. I. Dillington, prosecuting, nnid a teacher saw the girl wearing the ring, and it was placed on the teacher's deak.
Next day the father went to the school, demanded the ring, and put it back on the girl's finger.
Afterwards he did not send her to school
The beadmaster, Mr John Weaver, said: "I discourage jewellery in school because it causes envy In the minds of other children and turns their minds from the path of true educa- tion."
"Bangle Wrangle"
*The ease recalls. the Somerset. "Bangle Wrangle" which lasted from 1925 to 1930.
Violet Burton, daughter of a West Coker dairy farmer, was made to take off a silver bracelet in school, so her parents kept her from school for three years.
In 1930, after Violet had attended school normally for two years, ner bangle, and her determination to wear 1, resulted in an inquiry attend- ed by the headmistress, the school. managers, and members of the coun
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June 24, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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WELCOME!-Citizens of Liverpool, England, that has boon frequent target for Hitler's airmen, -swoop forward to welcome Prime Ministor Churchill, on visit to important manufacturing city.
Noto he waves navy cap instead of his usual iron het.
War Holds No Terrors For British Nudists
Britain's biggest nudist camp, at Green Hills, Hertford-
ty education committee. Then theshire, has faced the fact that modern war is war in the air- matter dropped.
Hun Prison Camp
Fare Awful
and now trades stare for stare with Royal Air Force pilots who conduct low-altitude reconnaissance flights over the camp.
"They seem to be over the camp a great deal," said the
proprietor, his black heard Television Given
streaming in the cold May wind, Į "but I expect they'll get used to tis as we're getting used to them."
Firewatching Too Cold
Public Showing
Part of U.S.
Still at War
BERLIN, May 12. The German press has discovered that. "part of America" is formally at war with Germany.:
war
Huge Button Order For The Army
AMERICANS WANT
BRITISH ART
The Lease and Lend Act has had an unexpected echo in The world of art. The closer association of the two demo- eracles has led to Great Britain's private 'collections of works of art being, scoured by the picture dealers to gratify, the in- creasing interest of American collectors.
They are, asking chiefly for portraits by front rank English and Scottish painters of the late 18th and early', 19th century and for landscapes by English painters of a hundred years ago, Two Scottish portrait paintera come hila
among the "wanted." Raeburn, whose portraits have for many years comunanded a higher urled than is generally realised, pro- bably hends it. Alment as populor, and more rare, is the work of an other great Scottish portrait palater, Alexander Nusmyth (1750-1040).
Connoisseurs in the United States
ure ranging beyond the names of the more famous English portrait paint ers. John Downman, the Deven artist, and John Singleton. Copley, who was born in Massachusetts but The clothing of Kitchener's Army later worked in England, are of high in ID14 was seriously delayed by a value to-day, shortage of trousers buttons. But-
tons are a problem in this war, too for the Quartermaster-General's de- partment was suddenly called on to provide 24,000,000 of them.
This was revealed in an interview by Lt. Gen. Sir Wilfred Lindsell, who is in charge of the Administration of the Ifome Forces.
Gen. Lindsell raiti his task was to supply everything that the Army wanted, from women's underwear for the A.T.S. to 15in, guns, or from surgical needle to a heavy tank.
Tremendous Tonnage
ja
..
London Scenes
So are the English Inndscapes by
John W. Wilson and Samuel Scott's records of Jacobean and fine Georgian London."
Land Girls
Join For War Work
A record number of recruits have elued iro Women's Land Army since the announcement that women were to be registered for war work.. Applicatsons for eurolment have sen to between 400 and 500 a week. Reerulis must agree to go wherever they are sent.........
"A good type of reccult is joining," an emelni suld. "Girls who have hurt left school or university, do- mestic servants, fuctory girls and shop assistants, especially from areas where the population has diminished 'hrough evacuation, are all accking work on farms,"
A few weeks ago there was a long list of farmers waiting for land giris. To-day trained volunteers can be supplied at short notice.
Many Volunteer
Good contemporary work of his torit London buildings is also much sought after to record the metropolls the days Immediately as it was in
There are more than 10,000 W.L.A. before the destroyers swapped upon volunteers in permanent employment it.
An odd aspect of the new Ameri-in forming, market gardening and well over 1,000 in can demand for English work is that forestry,
reserve. Thousands more women it has completely ousted the pre-war between 18 und 40 will have to be
the 'Slater for Dutch popularity in
skating scenes.
"TAC
interiors, senscopes, pastoral tonnage to be handled tremendous." he said. "Whether soldier is in Libya or clswhere he requires one-third of a ton of supplies per month.
"In this country there can be no stabilised front. We have therefore to be prepared to fight a war in our own lines, and there is no part of these islands which can be regarded as immune.
"Inevitably, therefore, in the event of attempted invasion, every priority would have to be given to the move- ment of men and muntiiona."
Gen. Lindsell pointed out that the Army was at present using only two. thirds of the amount of petrol con- In sumed by private molor-cars
Britain.
Confusion Over "Billion"
Mr
and
CHICK-SEXERS
ARE EXEMPT Chick-sexers have been exempted
in Australia from military duty, be- cause of their value to the poultry industry, says a Sydney report,
Mr F. D. Evans, of Dundas, official'
of chick-sexing to the teacher Department of Agriculture disclosed this recently.
There are 23 certified chlek-sexers
in New South Wales, four of them
women.
zmployed.
and
The need now is for farmers, faced with more and more work through the extension of tillage and with the call-up of 18,000 men after next hor- vest, to look ahead and notify their requirements well in advance, so that a flow of recruits can be maintained. *
FARMERS LOSE
LAND
War Measures
Hundreds of farmers who have. been given notice to quit "for the.
"If there were ony fewer chick-duration and three years! by county
expenses war agricultural committees will in
Lexers poultry farmers' would be doubled," sald Mr Evans.
effect be completely dispossessed of "Instead of being able to buy 1,000 their land. sexed chickens, they would have to
a chick.
tho
hod
to ensure
Mr A. G. Mobbs, of Oulton Broad, buy 2,000 clay old chicks to get the Suffolk, a prominent member of the 1,000 pullets. The Tuscarora Indian tribe, of New
National Farmers' Union executive, Sir Percy Hurd recently asked the
Usually chicks are 50 per cent. said dint the position was causing York State, part of the Iroquois Prime Minister whether he was
cockerels and 50 per cent, pullets, roup, formally declared
on aware of the confusion arising from They
would have to pay for the grave alarm.
The war agricultural committees as "Independent differences of meaning of the word thousand unwanted chicks,, and feed Germany in 1917
Lare empowered to eject any farmer people," the press said, because they "billion" on the two sides of the and house them." didn't consider themselves included Atlantic, and whether, in view of our Mr Evans, who can sex 700 to 800 whose land they consider not to be
maximum food Governments of the
production. In NEW YORK, May 10-America's in the United States' declaration of new economic intimacy, he would chicks na hour, is paid a half-penny cultivated in such a way
confer with the
Suffolk alone 81 farmers, farming contribution to the development of war.
USA and Canada so as to obtain
5.534 acres, have been displaced. uniformity in the matter.
Churchill replied that
Usually, the farm is handed over by UNITS BANNED
the committee to another farmer 'for Was true, word "billion," it peace
IN BANNS
the duration and three years."
What is
National the alarming side of the Atlantic opposite
When a soldier and his bride-to Farmers' Union is that the displaced Ocean, but he did not think that this led to any practical difficulties in be put up the banns, they may un- farmer remains liable for the cost Including re- negotiations. For all practical official wittingly give information to the of restoring the firms, and for other -BEAMSVILLE,Ontario, May-0-purposes one billion represented enemy, says the War Office. The pairs to farm
in smaller screens. Projection is accom- / (AP),--The Beamsville Town Coun- £1,000,000,000, "especially (Laughed that a soldier's. unit must no?
the Registrar-General has therfore order charges such as titles.
"Most farmers will never be able It didn't take the R.A.F. patrols plished with a high brilliancy re-cil has ordered books by Charles A. case of anything we owe."
removed from Public ter.)
longer be recorded, and that only to go back to their own farms," Mr long to spot the 10-nere park de-ceiving tube which operates on 75,000 | Lindbergh ed unsweetened rice, and for supperaleated to the absorption of sunshine volts and has a apecini optical sys-Library shelves. Similar action was In Great Britain a billion means the name of the town in which he is Mobbs said. "They could, not pos
United stationed should be given his sibly meet the charges which will
address.
have mounted up." and fresh air in the altogether.
At first the nudists, who sprawled large screen television for the theatre
But the Tuscaroras "never offered on the green sward within the wood-was given its first pubile demonstra-to smoke the peace pipe with a Ger fund camp, thought of hot-footing ition to 1,200 invited guests recently.man representative" during "The food they gave us in that for the bushes whenever inquisitivo Images were projected to a 15-by-20-1 negotiations and hence still are at different or alternative meanings on
lyers swooped over.
TORONTO, Moy 0--Ptc. George letters Thompson of Toronto. in received here to-day by relatives, described his escape from a German prison camp in France and his re- turn to England by way of Gibraltar. German camp was awful, he wrote to la sister, Mrs Rt. J. Doggett, and his Dancee, Miss Doris Cox. "All we hud for breakfast was a cup of black coffee without sugar or milk. It looked and lasted like coal dust screenings. For dinner we got boil-
bolled lentils."
For the first 10 days after he was made a prisoner on July 9, he wrote all they had to eat was biscuits and
water..
Heavily Armed
U. S. Plane
WASHINGTON-The Army, it was disclosed recently, has completed tests of a new plane which is the
"But everything in life being re- fative," the proprietor philosophised, "we adjusted ourselves. Nowadays, we just look up at them as they look down at us."
foot size:
The demonstration, conducted by
the Radio Corporation of America, was designed to show laboratory progress since previous tests with
war, the press said.
tem. Connection to the transmitting taken by the Guelph "If those plots are as good at source was by cable, but the system cently. locating their targets across the has worked as well in plekups off water as they were in finding us, the air.
they will serve their country nobly,' Results obtained were regarded by 4 the proprietor said.
observers as the best they had seen to date. Brilliancy di not equal that of a movie, but it was suffelent for satisfactory viewing.
The proprietor's wife explained that the nudists do not shun their responsibilities during air raids.
The nights are too cold now," of course, for fire-watching in the
nude," she said, "but on summer nights we'll be out with only our tin huts on."
most heavily armed of any American Plan Military Hospital
fighter craft yet produced.
The ship, designated the YP39C, la un improved model of the Bell P-30, What conclusions were reached from the tests were not announced
Attempt To Revive Dead Man Fails
An unsuccessful attempt to reviye a murderer who had been executed in an electric chair was described to Massachusetts Medient Society by Dr William Brickley.
In Brisbane THE Minister for the Interior. Senator II. 8, Foll, said that ho Lail
The attempt was made to deter-. The plane, which is being turned approved the construction of a new mine whether a new heart and brain out at Buffalo, N. Y., for both the general military hospital in Brisbane incline could establish the fact of Army Air Corps and the Reyni Alr at a cost of A£234,000.
death. Force, is powered by an Allison A contract for the excavation work Dr Brickley said he worked on the Ilquid-cooled motor more powerful has already been Jet. When the body for 70 minutes, Immediately than that used in the original P-30 hospital is completed there will be, after electrocution. Airncobra: pursuit plane, but la in addition to ward blocks, an ad- He used adrenalin, manual mas- "virtually the same in external | ministration building.
medical sage, and the Farndic electrical eur- appearances." the War Department officers' and nurses' quarters, V.A.D. rent for heart stimulation, but the said.
'quarters, and a guardhouse.
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