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Girl's Ring CausedEnvy In School
A HEADMASTER'S decision that girls should not wear jewellery, Ir school "because if caused envy In the minds of other children and turned their minds from the path of educa tion" resulted in a father being fined 10%, at Sheffield for not sending his nine-year-old daughter to school.
Harold Webster, radio dealer of Stockbridge, near Sheffield, gave his daughter the signet ring that caused all the trouble.
the troub
Mr G. . Billington, prosecuting, said
teacher saw the girl wearing the ring, and it was placed on the teacher's deskt.
Next day the father went to the school, demanded the ring, and put It boekt
on the girl's finger. Afterwards he did not send her to school
The headmaster, Mr John Wenver, said: "I discourage jewellery in school because it causes envy in the minds of other children and turna their mlads from the path of true educa- tion."
"Bangle Wrangle"
The case 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 bracelei in school, so her tor kept her from school parents 'three years.
In 1930, after Violet had attended school normally for two yours, her bangle, and her determination to wear it, resulted in an inquiry attendi- ed by the headmistress, the school managers, and members of the coun-
Tuesday,
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June 24, 1941
By Ernie Bushmiller
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WELCOME! Citizens of Liverpool, England, that has been frequent targot for Hitler's airmen, swoop forward to welcome Prime Minister Churchill, on visit to important manufacturing city. Noto ho waves navy cap instead of his usual iron hat.
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 camp a great deal," said the
Fare Awful
George
beard
Television Given
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):
proprietor, his black streaming in the cold May wind, "but I expect they'll get used to us 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.
RRS
RRB
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- cracies 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 Americun collectors.
They are making 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.
Land Girls
Join For War Work
Two Scottish Portrait painters come high anong the wanted," Raeburn, whose portraits hve for many years communded a higher price than is generally realised, pro- A recard number of recruits have bably heads it. Almost as popular, oined the Women's Land Army and more rare, is the work of un-since the announcement that women other great Scottish purtralt painter, were to be registered for war work. Alexander Nasmyth (1758-1840), Applicaflong for cnrolment have Connoisseurs in the United States risen to between 400 and 500 a week. are runging beyond the names of the Recruits must agree to go wherever more famous English portrait paint-they are sent. ers," Jolin ̈ ̈ ̈ Downman," the Devon
"A good type of recruit is joining," artist, and John Singleton Copley, an official sold, "Girls who have who was born in Massachusetts but just left school or university, do
The clothing of Kitchener's Army later worked in England, are of highmestic servants, factory girls and
in 1914 was seriously delayed by a shortage of trousers buttons. But- tons are a problem in this war, too for the Quartermaster-General's de- partiment was suddenly called on to provide 24,000,000 of them.
This was revealed in an Interview by Lt.-Gen. Sir Wilfred Lindsell, who in charge of the Administration of the Home Forces.
Gen. Lindsoll eald. his task was supply everything that the Army wanted, from women's underwear for the AT.S. to 18in. guns, or from surglen needle to a heavy tonit.
Tremendous Tonnage
value to-day.
London Scenes
So are the English landscapes by JJohn W. Wilson and Sumuel Scott's records of Jacobean and fine Georgian London."
Good contemporary work of his toric London buildings is also much sought after to record the metropolls as it was In the days immediately before the destroyers swapped upon
it.
shop assistants, especially from arens where the population has diminished through evacuation, are all seeking work on farms,"
A few weeks ago there was a long let of farmers waiting for land girls. To-day, trained volunteers enn be supplied at short notice.
Many Volunteer.
There are more than 10,000 W.L.A. volunteers in permanent employment In farming, market gurdening and
Thousands rezerve.
more women
An odd aspect of the new Amerl- can demand for English work is that forestry, and well over 1,000 in. It has completely ousted the pre-war between 10 and 40 will have to be popularity in the States for Dutch
Is interiors, seascapes, pastoral
skating scenes.
*The tonnage to be handled tremendous." he said. "Whether soidier is in Libya or elswhere 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 Jines, and there is no part of these islands which can be regarded as immune.
own
"Inevitably, therefore, in the event
and
CHICK-SEXERS
ARE EXEMPT Chick-sexers have been exempted
of attempted invasion, every priority in Australia from military duty, be- would have to be given to the move-cause of their value to the poultry
industry, says a Sydney report. ment of men and munitions."
Gen. Lindsell pointed out that the Army was at present using only two thirds of the amount of petrol con- sumed by private motor-cars Britain,
Confusion Over
"Billion"
in
Mr F. D. Evans, of Dundas, official of chick-sexing to the teacher Department of Agriculture disclosed this recently...
There are 23 certified chick-zexers In New South Wales, four of them women.
"If there were any fewer chick exers
poultry farmers' expenses would be doubled," said Mr Evans,
"Instead of being able to buy 1,000 sexed chickens, they would have to buy 2,000 day-old chicks to get the 1,000 pullets,
employed.
The need now is for farmers, faced with more and more work through the extension of tillage and will the call-up of 10,000 men after next har- 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 nollee; to quit "for the duration and three years" by county war agricultural committees will in their land. effect be completely dispossessed of
Mr A. G. Mobbs, of Oulton Broad, Suffolk, a prominent member of the said that the position National Farmers' Union executive, was causing grave alarm,
The Tuscarori Indian tribe, of New
"Usually chicks are 50 per cent Sir Percy Hurd recently asked the York State, part. of the Iroquois Prime Minister whether he was cockerels and 50 per cent, pallets, group, formally declared war an aware of the confusion arising from
"They would have to pay for the
The war agricultural committees Germany in 1917 as "Independent differences of meaning of the word thousand unwanted chicks, and feed
the and houre them."
are empowered to eject any farmer. people," the press sald, because they "billion" on the two sides of didn't consider themselves included Atlantie, and whether, in view of our
Mr Evans, who can sex 700 to 800 whose land they consider not to be TORONTO, May 9-Pte.
In the United States' declaration of new economie Intimacy, he would chicks an hour, is paid a half-penny cultivated in such a way as to ensure
confer with the Governments of the chick.
muximum food. production. Thompson of Toronto, in letters
NEW YORK, May 10.-America's
Suffolk alone 81 farmers, farming- U.S.A. and Canada so as to obtala received here to-day by relatives,
contribution to the development of war.
5,534 acres, have been displaced, described his escape from a German
At first the nudists, who sprawled large screen television for the theatre on the green sward within the wood-was given its first public demonstra-to smoke the peace pipe with a Ger-
But the Tuscaroras "never offered uniformly in the matter.
Mr Churchill replied that the
UNITS BANNED Usually, the farm is handed over by prison camp in France and his re-
it was true, had
the committee to another former "for word "billion," turn to England by way of Gibraltar, and camp, thought of hot-footing Jellon to 1,200 invited guests recently: man representative" during peace different or alternative meanings on
IN BANNS
the duration and three years." The food they gave us in that for the bushes whenever inquisitive Images were projected to a 15-by-20 negotiations and hence still are at the opposite side of the Atlantic
What Is alarming the National foot size. Gorman camp was awful," he wrote lyers swooped over.
war, the, press sald." to his sister, Mre R. J. Doggett, and
"But everything in life being re-
When a soldier and his bride-to-Farmers' Union is that the displaced The demonstration, conducted by
Ocean, but he did not think that this his fiancee,
Mies Doris Cox. "All we lative," the proprietor philosophlsed, the Radio Corporation of America,
led to any practical dimeulties in be put up the banns, they may un-farmer remains Ilable for the cost negotiations. For all practical offlela wittingly move information to the of restoring the farm, including re- ack "we adjusted ourselves. Nowadays, was designed to show laboratory hod for breakfast was a cup of black
ore billion représented coffee_without_sugar_or_milk. It we just look up at them as they look progress since previous tests with
purposes
has therfore.order.
marges
such as tithes. looked and tasted like coal dust "down at sun"
ched screens: Projection is accom (AP)-The-Beamsville-Town Coun--£1,000,000,000, "especially. In the Registrar-General bust ice. The and for other
own." (Laughed that a soldier's unit must no
farmers never be able It didn't take the RAF patrols plished with a high brilliancy re-el has ordered books by Charles A. case of anything wo own screenings. For dinner we got boll long to spot the 10-acre park de-celying tube which operates on 75,000 Lindbergh
removed
their own farms," Mr from Public ter.)
longer be recorded, and that only to go back ed unsweetened rice, and for supper dicated to the absorption of sunshine volls and has a special 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 "pon- his sibly meet the charges which will million millions: in the United stationed should be given. tem. Connection to the transmitting taken by the Guelph Council
States 1,000 millions.]
address.
have mounted up." has worked as well in pickups off scurce was by cable, but the system cently. the air.
bolled lentils.”
For the first 10 days after he was
made a prisoner on July 8, he wrote all they had to cat was bisculls and
water..
Heavily Armed U.S. Plane
WASHINGTON--The Army,
It
was disclosed recently, has completed tents of a new plane which . the
and fresh air in the altogether. lixating their targets across the "If those pilots are as good at water as they were in finding us, they will serve their country` nobly,” the proprietor said.
The proprietor's wife explained that the nudists do not shun their responsibilities during air.raids.
"The nights are too cold 'now," of för · fire-watching in the course, nude," she said, "but on summer nights we'll be out with only our tin hats on."
mast heavily armed of any American Plan Military Hospital
fighter craft yet produced.
The ship, designated the YP39C, Is
an improved model of the Bell P-33.
"
In Brisbane
Results obtained were regarded by observers as the best they had seen to date. Brilliancy, did not equal that of a movie, but it was sumelent for satisfactory viewing.
Attempt To Revive Dead Man Fails
An unsuccessful attempt to revive
a murderer who had been executed [in an electric chair was described to Massachusetts Medien Society by Dr William Brickley."
The attempt was made 'to deler- mine whether a new heart and brain |machine could establish the fact of
death.
What conclusions were reached from THE Unister for the Interior, the tests were not announced.
Senator II, S. Foil, sald that he hail The plane, which is being turned | approved the construction of a new eut nt Buffalo, N. Y., for both the general Military, hospital in Brisbane Army Air Corps and the Royal Air at a cost of A£231,000, Force, is powered by an Allison A contract for the excavation work Dr. Brickley said he worked on the liquid-cooled motor more powerful has already been lef. When the body for 70 minutes, immediately then that used in the original P-30 hospital is completed there will be, after electrocution. Airacobra pursuit plane, but is 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 cur- appearances." the Wor
Department officers' and nurses' quarters; V.A.D. | rent for heart stimulation, but the Bald.
Iquarters, and a guardhouse.
murderer was. "dead beyond recall."
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