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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 bulli in jungle fastnesses in Borneo and the Celches. These aerodromes can only be reached by air, and attack necessarily would have to be air-borne,
Additional coastal batterics i have been emplaced at import- ant salient points all over the Dutch archipelago, and the crea tion of a new native militia should provide a sufficiency of defending troops.
LATE
Augmenting air training schemes is the military instruction local #ying clubs. A number of Tiger Moth training ships have been ordered and should arrive shortly.
Much of this year's 30,000,000 Ruller appropriation of the Volk- stand." or People's Parlament, going for defence purchases abroad. Three Hundred American made Buggies." which have been success-
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ad
Report On Social Evil
In Malaya
came to
After a year's Investigations into social problems in Singapore, Miss S. E. Niccoll-Jones, who Singapore at the invitation of the Straits Settlements Government, has handed her report to Government, says the "Straits Times."
This follows several interim re- ports
on the social evi! problem, au
fully tested in the States, have bet is believed that she is outspoken
orderett. Their delivery, along with in her comments and has made im-
Jorge consignment of Curtiss Inter- ceptor fighters and Brewster Buffa-portant recommendations.
a
lous, is expected scon
listed.
Miss Niccoll-Jones' report is to be Small arms of all types are being considered by the Executive Council made here in the ordnance factories, it is probable that it will be pub- Fast becoming self-sufficient, there
Ath meeting of the southern dyl- plants now turn out air bombs, rifle cartridges, grenades, and vast quantision of the British Medical Associa
tlon (Malaya Branch), Miss Niceoll- ties of high explosive charges.
Navy Speed-up
A Netherlands Purchasing Com-Jones said that she doubted if the mittee in New York, is speeling ship-Singapore public was seriously in- terested in the welfare of children ments of arms and defence material:
and it was her opinion that boys ani to the Indies,
girls must be considered when tackl- ing the problem of prostitution.
Protective Measures The NEI Navy is receiving large,
She compared the problera in the grants of money for extensions of East with that in Britain, where the Netherlands Indian ports and har laws, she said, were to protective bours, as well ny landing stages for and so expertly made and applied cruisers, the production of nines, and that they did not allow loopholes for
Ma-
exploitation,
BRITISH SHRINE BOMBED-Britain's famed Westminster Abbey seemed almost to be the Here is a scene after fire centre of the Nazis' savage air attack on London, May 10-11.
The roof collapsed and bombs set the Abboy's roof aflame and burned a great hole in it.
tons of debris fell.
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I'll Never Yield Fleet,' Darlan Tells French
99
VICHY, France, May, 23.-Following is the text of Vice-Premier Admiral Jean Darlan's broadcast to-day to the French people:
Frenchmen:
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Cars
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 in 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.
Several factors have forced up the price of used cars. Many people believe there will be such a shortage of automobiles in post-war Britain the building of minesweepers. chine tools and dredging vessels are
From the Une a baby was born
former Alles, it is as a result of the by acts her desire to continue that that old timers, will command high prices. One London denler esti- on the Navy's "must" list for defence, until it reached the age of 17 years,
You have already heard our default of the Government which polley.
continue These are acts which determined mates at least 300,000 can havo it was covered by a code of protec- Money is forthcoming for boili
declared it was ready to chief, Marshal Petain, tell you the fight without having the means, Chancellor Hitler to grant us ameli-
been told negleeled. NEI youth is not being neg
by owners, who expect! up tion, Special
been set up for camps
On 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- eventually to get double their pur- preliminary military trahalag, and in Malaya especially, the laws were that I went at the invitation of night, that the Marshat was called feat and of the conditions of the cimse price. #ymnastle teachers now direct their such that there was no protective
Chancellor Hitler and that con- to take the destiny of the country in armistice which you just learned.
Listen well to my words. classes on a military basis
rode around the young person.
On the result of the negotiations ARP efforts have been redoubled. In fact, she added, the channels versations between the chief of his hands and ask an honourable
armistice. departments and ins were so wide, allowing exploitation the German Reich and myself Governmental
In June, 1940, the victor could have in course directly depends the future Litutions,
plus all frins hiring more and
It is necessary for her to choose and wiped France off the map of the ints 50 norsun, must register with moral traffic, that the prosti-hud been approved by him and refuzed us an armistice, beaten us of France.
was never free.
between life and death. The Mar- ARP centres, and build shelters, pro- It is believed that Miss Nicroll by the Government.
The Marshal, having given me the world. They did not do it.
shal and the Government have vide fire precautionary apparatus, and
First aid and Jones, in her report, dwells at length
chosen-liter stores of camouflaging materials must be en un the subject of trafficking in girls undoubted-honour-of-designating me Since her arrival here she has as his second in his heavy task, I hand at all times.
made very close investigations into have come to bring you details which Workers whose occupations are the problem, going out among the you have been impatiently awaiting The Chancellor did not ask me to considered vital to national defence
jobs, and have Women of Singapore's "underworld." cannot leave their
speaking to them and learning much hand over the fleet to him. been regimented on visionary scale.
a defence pro- about their life.
CHARLES DAY
NAMED то OTTAWA POST
Strange Request In Sheriff's Will
A direction for strange fishing Loch Lever-the competition
the heaviest competitor catching basket of trout to receive £25 and
the
Everyone knows and the English better than anyone-that I will never hand it over.
The Chancellor did not ask me for He did not any colonial territory. ask me to declare war on England.
Why has he acted so7
Nazis Stand Alone Germany began the war alone and judges herself able to end it alone against no matter what coalition.
At na. moment in the conversations will, was there any question of France George
to
Sear Future-at-Stake-
In May, 1941, the victor has agreed negotiate with the French Govern-
ment.
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Your duty is clearly traced: Follow the Marshal, aid him with all your fores, as I am duing in his work of national restoration,
Since the Monlolre interview, dur- Like him and like me, in your which the principle of collabora- thoughts and in your acts, be inspired tion was decided, France has shown only by the interests of France.
George Formby Returns
To His First Love,
.
English comedian George Formby has returned to motor-
OTTAWA, May 22.-Charles Day, to throw deceased's ashes into the noted United States aircraft pro-loch-was included in duction mar who spent several years published recently of Mr In China bullding airplanes for use Percy Trentham, of Oak illi, Duckbandoning in any way her sovereign-cycling in private life and on the screen.
was
his three
against the Japanese, has been nam-nell, Salop, a junior sheriff of the ed chief of the mucitions and supply City of London. department's production division, it He died as the result of enemy
learned yesterday....
action in December lust. Department officials said J. A. C. The competitors are to be McCurdy will remain in charge of sons and co-directors.
Mr Trentham, who was purchasing and that A. J. Tyler, for- mer chief of production and material works contractor, left £186,645. He progress, will become chief of over-directed that all private loans under
£300 "should be extinguished.”
haul and repair.
Precautions To Guard
Priceless Documents
Are
ty,
France freely choosing the road: she is taking.
On her depends her present and
our
Formby earned hig first money as a racing motor-cyclist in the north of England.
When he became a radio and film star, his one extravagance was the purchase of powerful motor cars.
In fact, Formby traded in his old car for a new one every year.
To-day, however, Formby has purchases for lacked up his Intest the duration.
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FUTURE PILOTS
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standi.
MAY FLY LYING DOWN
he
can
Manufacture of new automobiles. hns virtually stopped for the dura- tion. Those that are made are re- served for the export market. The private motorist must get authorisa tion from the Ministry of Supply before he can buy a new car-and| he must have a good reason,
Registrations Drop
Quadruplets Born In Chicago
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All Girls, Died 10
Hours After Birth
CHICAGO, May 17-Mrs Fronces. Adams, 20-year-old wife of a lunch No Agures are now available as room chef, gave birth to quadruplets to the number of vehicles operating the second set on record in Chicago on Britain's roads because the go---but all the Infants died to-day.. ernment considers "it would not be less than 10 hours after they were in the public interest to disclose born. them." But car registrations are
estimated in competent quarters to The quadruplets, all girls, were have dropped less than a quarter. bern three months prematurely, The Bicycles always have been popular first born was weakest and had to be in Britain, where distances between placed in an artificial respirator Im- towns are much shorter than in pediately. The others were placed Canada, Since the
more in Incubators. bicycles than ever have
WHE
hayd the ronds. Many motorist or turned to this less expensive
in the early morning hours all the form infants showed signs of weakening and were placed in the resplenior in
of transport as an economy measure.shifts, Frances, the third of the
The gasoline ration allows the
But
ly 200 miles a
guads, was the first to die. Char-
private driver to travel Zene, the second born, and Margaret. doing works of anoth
the first, died within Ove minutes of Frances.
tho
or to whom a car โร essential, can
The fourth and Uniest of get an extra allowance. For in- stance, à commercial traveller who quadrupletts, Marie, who weighed needs a car to cover his route can four ounces, died about three hours travel between $50 and 000 miles after her three sisters succumbed, ~- monthly
milt
Soldier Dies For Soldier
Holman 1wo
of the
her future.
She will have the peace which a public she maltes herself.
Special Regulations She will huve the place in the Europe which she
War-time conditions have com organization of
Planes of the future would prob- will have made for herself.
ably be built to enable pilots to fly pelled special motoring regulations. some seem to have
If you drive in the blackout, you Remember
lying down, Major Oliver Stewart,
must have your headlights masked. forgotten that France has suffered
He can be seen tearing round elty B.R.C. commentator, said recently.
Tips the gravest defeat in her history, that
of mudguards, or bumpers must "There is no more effective way be painted white. Parked cars must of her continental terra- and country on a motor-cycle with three-fifths
of avoiding pilots' black-out at high
be Immobilised by removal of the tory has been occupied, that we have his wife Beryi ridlig plillon.
Sergeant F. R. Holman, 'Royal some essential million and a ha
"We used to do this in our court- speeds," he said, and a half prisoners. This defeat was due to our past ing days," Formby says with a grin, "Tests have shown that the posi-distributor head or Fors. From
to 1010 errors. **
1930
light they must always be left lock-vain attempt to save Bombardier J. "We didn't walk out': we motor- tion of the pilot is linked with the part of the engine. Even in day- Artillery, recently gave his life in a speed of acceleration he is able to ed. Speed limit in the blackout in Nowland, when the Victoria Hotel at legislative, bliced." und our governments assemblies stored up errors and let
Wife Also Keen
fire. Sergeant a pilot crouches he can stand Lulit-up areas is 20 miles an hour. Lyme Regids was destroyed by a themselves be led to defend interests
Mrs. Formby is a keen motor-
successful was
in rescuing WASHINGTON, July 2 (UP)-Secret precautions
"If he lies on his back which were not, our own, to the de- cyclist, too. She used to own her! greater acceleration than if sitting. In open country there is no speed disastrous being taken to ensure the safety, in event of war, of three price-triment of our own.
own machine.
The tourist must frequently halt children. stand even more, and more again
at road blocks manned by soldiers.
When the owner of the hotel beard less documents of human liberty--the English Magna Carta, the Cites Incoherent Policy
During the filming of "Call a Cop" if he lies on his stomach. U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, it was Domestically they permitted sabot-
Georke and Beryl arrived at the "In straight flight, a human being These usually obstruct half the road.
Some drivers who ignored a sentry's of the fire she and a friend. rushed the British left it with the Library, age of morale of the Nation; they studio by motor-bike every morning can be pushed through the air at Son
challenge learned recently.
have been shot and killed. up stairs and brought some tegalized laziness and disorder.
two mornings George managed almost any speed, provided he is pro-w
Ubick through
• Similar measures are being where it is under guard.
Abrond they carried out an Inco to give Beryl tosses off his pillon teeled from wind pressure. But it When stopped, the driver must show/children down the main staircase smoke and fumes. licence. hia Identity card and driving Across the Library foyer are the
Sergeant fol
Holman and Driver E. C. taken to ensure the safety of other two yellowed parchments, the herent policy; they made as the Proceat into a hard, concrete roadway. is in turning that blackout' has to Then he is allowed to proceed.
and Rose cycle be faced." ferce of small European powers
fought lectors
George blamed a hundreds of other rare but less Declaration of Independence and the
motorist The private
way upstairs can como brought out several guests. Then without having beer
been capable of
Jis if ho wishes to important books, papers and Constitution.
arms for clutch; Bery? lns other. Idens, forging the india
George also declares that this rid- literary items почу in tho
For Fort Knox?
carrying out that
ing put his back in trim for the rac Library of Congress, adjacent to
They decided to give old to every-ing sequences of his new alm.
by daylight raiders. A few the Capitol.
one, which made necessary a power- To "Call a Cop." George plays o laled that they might be taken, in ful offensive army. Our govern-
to join the The Librarian of Congress, Archi- event of war, to Fort Knox, Kentucky,
dealin muat differ from that used girl in one of the bedrooms and motor-cycle corps.
Holman, however, crawled through bald Maclcish, suld that precautions and stored there with the $22,000,ments and our assemblies, however, one coptions
the country a defensive
The Lisbon correspondent of the He rode the chase sequences with insure the 000,000 (B) gold hoard,
the smoke into the lounge, reached were being taken lo "maximum safety" of the documents. Testifying on the legislative appro-army.
"Not having known how to prepare that it was dinoult to "Dally Express", writes that reports Premier's Son-in-Law Nowland who was unconscious, and
him within camera range.
received Germany
then collapsed. When firemen found He refused to disclose the nature of priation bill, including the Library's the preparations. The best insurance funds, Maclcish, evenied plans to for war, either, morally or materially, a Cop in George's second referring to the devastating effect of
them they were wearing their service topleal comedy. In "Gunner George" the new British bombs.
respirators. Attempls were mado to for complete safely of the historical store less important papers in post our governments nevertheless
"Many he was involved with spies. In the
their were killed when
them, Mr Duncan Sandys, M.P., for the revive
but they
died in relics, he said, is to "keep the place official vaults at scattered points, clared it.
crushed by the bomb of storage absolutely secret."
Mucleish and some 00 post offices in
We lost it because of the mistakes film he trails a wartime sabotagej lungs were
plot. One of the four coples of Magna West Virginia, Virginia und Pennsyl-
blast although
han Both the owner of the hotel, Mra Carta, first English document of vanla had been found to have avail- and weakness of those who led us
Forby says he has not had so by bomb splinters,,, were untouched Norwood Division of Lambeth, the
the report added. Prime Minister's son-in-law, "Hamburg residents will not trust been seriously injured in a motoring M, II. Norman, and the friend who Individual liberty, was deposited with able storage space... the Library by the British govern-
And it is as a result of the in-much fun as in his very first picture,
even reinforced steel concrete shelters accident, both his fent. being crushed. helped to rescue some of the guests, Macleish naked $160,000 for the
Limit." He was a racing motor-cyclist. in against the row Britial bombs, Mrs Sandys took him to n hospital Mr Kennard a bone-setter, liave al- of their ment for the duration of the wat. pralective work, and the Houso describable debacle of which many
"All flock underground to the rall Just outside London, but is feared ready been bombed-out 11 was on exhibit at the Now York Appropriations Committee has allow-of you have horrible memories, It is that one, which was filmed on the World Fair when the war started and ed $30,000, on a starter.
as a result of the defection of our Iste of Man,
ways Immediately the sirens sound." that is injuries are very serious.
.
Some members of Congress specu-
only gave
Into It..
Past Mistahes
de-
New British Bombs Demoralize Nazis
have
their
it from possible machine-gun attacks they were told that there was another. soldier in the hotel so they both done so. But the colour scheme and went to the rescue, but Rose found a
Brought her to safoty, by milltary vehicles.
Seriously Hurt
London homes, '
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