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July 7,
1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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No Effort Spared To Strengthen N.E.I.
By JOHN M. RALEIGH
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
BATAVIA, Java, July 2 (UP).—Netherlands East Indies have made every effort to turn the Indies into a series of island fortresses. More than 50 air bases have been built in fungle fastnesses in Borneo and the Celebes. These nerodromes can only be reached by air, and attack necessarily would have to be air-borne.
Additional constal batteries have been emplaced at import- ant salient points all over the Dutch archipelago, and the cren- tion of a new native militia should provide a sufficiency of defending troops.
Augmenting air, tralaing schemes the military instructions among local flying clubs. A number of
Report On
Social Evil
In Malaya
After a year's investigations Into
Tiger Moth training ships have been soetul problems in Singapore, Miss urdered and should arrive shortly.
Much of this year's 30,000,000 S. E. Niccoll-Jones, who came to
ppropriation of the "Singapore at the invitation
of the
or People's Parliament, Is Straits Settlements Government, has going for defence purchases abroad. hunded her
it says the sport to Government,
Times."
Three hundred American made “Blitz
This follows several interim re- Buggies, which inve been success- fully tested in the States, have been ports on the social evil problem, and ordered. Their delivery, along with it is believed that she is outspoken a large consignment of Curtiss Interns her comments and has made im- reptor fighters and Brewster Bulla portant recommendations.
Juesy
Ished.
Miss Niccoll-Jones' report is to be is expected soon. Sinull arms of all types are being considered by the Executive Council made here in the ordnance factories, and it is probable that it will be pub- Fast becoming self-suficient, these
At a meeting of the southern divi- plants now turn out alr bombs, rifte| cartridges, grenades, and vast quantion of the British Medical Associa
on (Malaya Branch), Miss Niccoll- ties of high explosive charges.
A Netherlands Purchasing Com-Jones sail that she doubted if the 66 mittee in New York, is speeding ship-Singapore public was seriously in- ments of arens and defence material terested In the welfare of children and it was her opinion that boys and to the Indies.
girls must be considered when tackl- ing the problem of prostitution.
Protective Measures
Navy Speed-up
The NEI Navy is receiving large She compared the problem in the grants of money for extensions of East with that in Britain, where the Netherlands Indian ports and bar-laws, she said, were so protective bours, as well as landing stages for and so expertly made and applied cruisers, the production of mices, and that they did not allow loopholes for the building of minesweeels are
Mu-exploitation. chine tools and dredging
BRITISH SHRINE BOMBED-Britain's famed Westminster Abbey seemed almost to be the centre of the Nazis' savago air attack on London, May 10-11. ́Here is a scone after fire bombs set the Abbey's roof aflame and burned a great hole in it. The roof collapsed and tons of debris foll,
"I'll Never Yield Fleet,"
Darlan
Tells French
Darlan's broadcast to-day to the French people:
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A Million Cars
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Up In
Britain
LONDON.—A secondhand motorcar in good con- dition costs more in Britain to-day than the same car when new.
But, the used 'car în run-down condition is
a liability. Spare parts are difficult or impossible to obtain. When a car begins to go to pieces, the owner usually puts it in storage and resorts to other means of transport.
NEI youth is not being neglected.tion, the contrary, In the East and that it was with his approval but which in reality only thought of orations of the consequences of de-ventuall ymnastic teachers now direct the Malaya"especially, the laws were that I went at the invitation off the destiny of the country In armistice which you just learned,
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3 Truck Experts To Help China
Several factors have forced up the price of used cars. Many people believe there will be such a shortage From the time a baby was born
Frenchmen: on the Navy's "must" list for defence. until it reached the age of 17 years,
of automobiles in post-war Britain forner Allies, it is as a result of the by acts her desire to continue that that old timers will command high) Money is forthcoming for both. it was covered by a code of protec-
You have already heard our default of the Government which policy.
prices. One London dealer esti. chief, Marshal Petain, tell you the fight without having the means, Chancellor Hitler to grant us amell been laid up by owners who expect declared it was ready to continue These are nets which determined mates at least 500,000 cars have Special camps have been set up for Ont preliminary military training, and
to get double their pur such that there, was
that the Marshal was called feat and of the conditions of the linse price, no protective Chancellor Hitler and that con- to take classes on a military basis.
Manufacture of new automobiles ARP efforts have been redoubled. code around the young person.
Listen well to my words. In fact, she added, the channels versations between the chief of his hands and ask an honourable
virtually stopped for the dura-| Governmental departments and ins-
were so
so wide, allowing exploitation the German Reich and myself
armistice.
On the result of the negotiations Stations, plus all firms
hiring more and immoral
traffic, that the prosti-had been approved by him and refused us an armistice, beaten us of France.
In June, 1940, the victor could have in course directly depends the future tion. Those that are made are re-
served for the export market. The SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 (UP). than 50 persons build shelters, pro- must register with
private motorist must get authorisa-Three United States truck trans- tule was never free. All' centres, and
It is believed that Miss Niecoll by the Government.
and wiped France off the map of the It is necessary for her to choose tion from the Ministry of Supply portation experts will leave here soon videof
fire precautionary apparatus, and
Jones, in her report, dwells-at-length The.Marshal, having-given.me.the world. They did not do it.
between life and death. The Mor-before he can buy a new car and for Chuighing and serve us dollar.. First aid and on the subject of tracking In girls. undoubted honour of designating me
shin! and
the Government have he must have a good reason, Bouflaging materials must be en)
Since her arrival here she bas as his second in his heavy task, I
chosen life. nt all times.
Your duty is clearly traced: Follow Workers whose wccupations are the problem, going out among the you have been impatiently awaiting to negotiate with the Frencli Govern- force, as I am doing in his work of
made very close investigations into have come to bring you details which
In May, 1941, the victor has agreed the Marshat, ald him with all your considered vital to national defence women of Singapore's "underworld,"
The Chancellor did not ask me to cannot leave their jobs, and have speaking to them and learning much hand over the fleet to him.
national restoration, Since the Montoire Interview, dur- been regimented on a defence pro-about their life.
Like him and like me, in, your Everyone knows and the Englishing which the principle of collabora- thoughts and in your acts, be inspired visionary scale.
better than anyone that I will never tion was decided, France has shown only by the interests of France. hand it over.
stores
CHARLES DAY NAMED TO
OTTAWA POST.
Strange Request In Sheriff's Will
The Chancellor did not ask me for any colonial territory. He did not ask me to declare war on England.
Why has he acted so?·
Nazis Stand Alone Germany began the war alone and judges herself able to end it alone against no matter what coalition.
ment.
Sees Future at Stake
George Formby Returns To His First Love
A direction for a strange Ashing competition In Loch Lever-the competitor catching the heaviest basket of trout to receive £25 and OTTAWA, May 22-Charles Day, to throw decensed's ashes into the noted United States aircraft pro-loch--was Included in the will. was there any question of France duction man who spent several years published recently of Mr George abandoning in any way her sovereign-cycling in private life and on the screen. in China building airplanes for use Percy Trentham, of Oak Hill, Buck-ty. against the Japanese, has been nam-nell, Salop, a junior sheriff of the
ed chief of the muctions and supply City of London.
was
yesterday,
department's production division, it Ife died as the result of enemy
action in December last.
The competitors are to be his three sons and co-directors,
learned officials said J. A. C..
McCurdy will remain in charge of purchasing and that, A, J. Tyler, for- mer chief of production and material progress, will become chief of over- haul and repair.
a pubile Mr Trentham, who was works contractor, fett £186,045. He directed that all private loans under £300 "should be extinguished.”
Precautions To
Guard
Priceless Documents
WASHINGTON, July 2 (UP).-Secret precautions
ara
Across the Library foyer are the
For Fort Knox?
Some members of Congress specu inted that they might be taken, in
At no moment in the conversations
English comedian George Formby has returned to motor-
France freely la choosing the road Formby earned his first. money as a racing motor-cyclist | in the north of England.
she is taking.
On her depends her present and her future.
She will have the peace which she makes herself.
FUTURE PILOTS MAY FLY LYING DOWN
Registrations Drop
year men at the request of Washing- ton authorities to old China in the to the number of vehicles operating the Burma, road.
No Agures are now pvailable as transportation of war materials over.
on Britain's roads because the gov ernment considers
in
The experts are Danlet G. Arn- "it would not be them."
the public interest to disclose stein of New York, Harold C. Davis But var registrations are of West Hartford, Conn., and Marco
Helmen of San Francisco. estimated in competent quarters to have dropped less than a quarter.
The trio will go by steamer to Bicycles always have been popular Hawaii, from there they will travel in Britain, where distances between by clipper to Hongkong and then will towns are much shorter than in Canada, Since the
the wor, noro
o by plane to Free China's capital.
bicycles than ever have appeared on Arnstein, the spokesman for the the roads. Many motorists have truckers, sald that after conferring turned to this less expensive form with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of transport as an economy measure. they would travel over the Burma The gasoline tation allows the road, making a preliminary survey. private driver to travel approximate ly 201 miles a
month. But.
They will establish their hood- duing work of national Importance, quarters at Rangoon and stay there or to whom
a car is essential, can u the job is finished.” Bet no extra allowance. For in-.
"It is important to the world, as stance, a commercial traveller who
we Americans see it, that this road needs a car to cover his route can be kept open," suld Arnstein. travel between 550 and 600 miles "America's job is to help: China and we three are going there as Amer- icans to do the job."
monthly,
When he became a radló and film} stor, his one extravagance was the purchase of powerful moter cars. She will have the place in the Ta fact, Formby traded in his old organization of Europe which she car for a new one every year,
Special Regulations will have made for herself.
To-day, however, Formby has Planes of the future would prob-
War-time conditions have com- Remember some seem to have Jacked up his latexi purchases for ably be built to enable pilots to fly pelled special motoring regulations. forgotten that France has suffered the duration.
lying
down, Major Oliver Stewart, If you drive in the blackout, you the gravest defeat in her history, that
He can be seen tearing round city B.D.C. commentator, sald recently. must have your headlights masked. three-fifths of her continental terrland country on a motor-cycle with
Tips of mudguards, or bumpers must "There is no more effective way tory has been occupied, that we have his wife Beryl riding pillion. of avoiding pilots' black-out at high be painted while. Parked cura must be immobilised by removal of the and a half prisonera.
"We used to do this in our court- speeds," he said. defeat was due to our posting days," Formby says with a grin. "Tests have shown that the post-distributor head or some essential errors. From 1910 to 1930 our
"We didn't walk out': we motor- tion of the pilot is linked with the part of the engine. Even in day- governments and our
light they must always be left lock- Legislative biked."
speed of neceleration he is able to assemblies stored up errors and let
stand. Wife Also Keen
ed. Speed limit in the blackout in themselves be led to defend interests
Mrs Formby 'Is
bullt-up areas is 20 miles an hour. In open country there is no speed which were not our own, to the de-cyclist, too. She used to own her
limit, own machine. Cites Incoherent Policy
George and Beryl arrived at the During the Alming of "Call a Cop,"
a keen
olor-
"If he lies on his back he
"If a pilot crouches he can stand reater acceleration than if sitting. again
The tourist must frequently halt) stand even more, and
st road blocks manned by soldiers. These usually obstruct half the road. "In straight fight, a human being some drivers who ignored a sentry's
more
If he lies on his stomach.
in turning that binckout' has George blamed a fierce cycle,
be faced." clutch:
Beryl has other idean. George also declares that this rid- ing sequences of his new Alm, ing put his back in trim for the rac-
In "Call a Cop." George plays a
challenge have been shot and killed.
Then Is allowed to proceed.
doge
A Kew have
Quadruplets Born In Chicago
All Girls, Died 10 Hours After Birth
CHICAGO, May 17-Mrs Frances
the second set on record in Chicago The private motorist can camou--but all the infants died to-day,
his car
If he wishes to protect less than 10 hours after they were It from possible machine-gun attacks bom. done so. But the colour scheme and born three months prematurely. The
The quadruplets, alt · girls, design must differ from that used first born was weakest and had to be by military vehicles.
placed in an artificial respirator Im- mediately, The others were placed
New British Bombs by daylight ralders.
Demoralize Nazis
were
being taken to ensure the safety, in event of war, of three price-triment of our own. less documents of human liberty-the English Magna Carta, the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, it was Domestically they permitted sabot- learned recently.
the Bellish left it with the Library, age of morale of the Nation; they studio by motor-bike every morning.
legalized laziness and disorder, Similar measures are being where It la under guard.
Abroad they carried out an inco-1 to give Bery! 10sses off, his pillion almost any speed, provided he is pro- | When stopped, the driver must show¦ Adams, 20-year-old wife of a. lunch-
On two mornings George managed can be pushed through the air at taken to ensure the safety of other two yellowed parchments, the herent polley; they made us the pro- sent into a hard, controle rondway, leted from Vint Pression. But to blur identity card and driving Heenee. room chef, gave birth to quadruplets hundreds of other rare but less. Declaration of Independence and the tectors of small European powers important books, papers and Constitution.
without having
capable of the indispensable arms for literary items now in the
forging carrying out that mission. Library of Congress, adjacent to
They decided to give ald to every the Capitol.
one, which made necessary a power- ful offensive army. Our govern- The Librarian of Congress, Archi- event of war, to Fort Knox, Kentucky,ments and our assemblies, however, constable with ambitions to join the bald Macleish, sald that precautions and stored thore with the $22,000,- were being taken to Insure the 000,000 (13) gold hoard.
only gave the country a defensive ter-cycle corps. "maximum safety" of the documents. Testifying on the legislative appro-army.
The Lisbon correspondent of the He refused to disclose the nature ofpriation bil. including the Library's for war, either morally or materially keep him within camera range.
Not having known how to prepare such she hint it was annoult to "Daily Express" writes that reports have been received from Germany "Call a Cop" in George's second referring to the devastating effect of
In the early morning hours all the for complete safety of the historical store less important papers in post
our governments nevertheless de- topical comedy. In "Gunner George"
Infants showed algns of weakening relles, he said, is to "keep the place official vaults at scattered points. clared it.
and were placed in the respirator in absolutely secret." storage abse
he was involved with spies. In the the new British bomba.
"Many Maclclsh sold some 00 post offices in
were killed when their
shifts, Frances, the third of the One of the four copies of Magna West and been found to have aväli- | and weakness of those who led us
crushed by the bomb Virginia and Pennsyl Virginia,
We lost it because of the mintalces w film he tralls a wartime sabotage lungs were
Mr Duncan Sandys, M.P., for the quads, was the first to die, Char- Certo, first English document of vania
plot.
blast although
the report added. Prime Minister's son-in-law, has the firal, died within five minutes of "Hamburg residents will not trust been seriously injured in a motoring Francca. even reinforced steel concrete shelters areldent, both his feet being crushed. The fourth and Unfest of the against the new British bombs. Mrs Sandys took him to a hospital quadrupletis, Marie, who weighed "Ail flock underground for the rall« just outside London, but it is feared four ounces, died about three kaura I ways. Immediately the sirens sound." | that his injuries are very, serious............” Iafter her three sisters auccumbed.
the preparations, The best Insurance funds, Maçlelsl
of
Individual liberty, was deposited with able storage space.
-revealed plans to
the
the Library by the British govern- Muelelal naked $100,000 for ment for the duration of the wat, protective work, and the House It was on exhibit at the New York Appropriations Committee has allow World Fair when the war started and1 cả $30,000 as a starter.
Past Mistaker
lle rode the chase sequences with
Premier's Son-in-Law
Seriously Hurt
in incubatora.
Formby và he has not hind so by bomb spilte hey were untouched i Norwood. Division of Tambeth, the lene, the second born, and Margaret,
"No Limit.”
into it.
And it is as a result of the in much fun or in his very first picture, describable debacle of which many of you have horrible memories, it is that one, which was filmed on the He was a reing motor-cyclist in as a result of the defection of nur Isle of Man.