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New Super Transport Plane Developed
KANSAS CITY, July 2 (UP)-Transcontinental and Wes- tern Air, Inc., announces that it has developed a 57-passenger transport plane capable of 350 miles an hour top speed.
The air he said the plane, largest land transport yet pro- jected for construction, had been under secret development for two years by Howard Hughes, 'round-the-world fler, and Jack Frye, TWA,president, at the Lockheed aircraft plant in Bur-
bank, Calif.
German Reprisal In Athens
Sequel To Swastika
Theft In City
ATHENS, June 1.-German military authorities imposed 10 p.m. curfew on Athens to- day following theft of a Ger. man military flag from atop the Acropolis. An official order said that if the thieves were caught they would be sentenced to death.
An order from the military commander sinted:
Frye said TWA has ordered 140 of the planes, the first of which is scheduled for delivery next spring.
The plane, easily convertible Into, a troop transport, would be powere by four 2,500-horsepower Wright engines, carry 6 persons, including crew of seven, have a range of more thim 4,000 miles, supercharged cabin and engines permitting operation up to 30,000 feet with low altitude com- fort, and at 47 percent of power would cruise at 283 miles an hour, bringing Los Angeles within 01 hours of New Yorkc.
Frye said that feet of 10 such planes, marshalled for emergency military service could transport 16- 12,000 to the Canal Zone in 30 hours, 000 troops to Alaska in 36 hours, 7,500 to Hawaii in 48 hours, or could fly a
a round trip, between Bostup, Massachusetts, and Bristol, England, in 24 hours.
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could carry 10 tons
Equipped as cargo planes they and 40 of them could transport 10,- 000,000 pounds of cargo to the Canal
"As a result of the following established facts, traffic and cir-Zone in
48 hours. culation in Athens and Piraeus
With normal night passengers and mail and express loads, it was said, shall be limited to 10 p.m.
the new planes would be able to "First: On the night of May 30-31 from Los Angeles to New York non- the German military flag dying on top with a five-hour fuel supply the Acropolls was stolen. Investi- left in reserve. gations are being held. The guilty The cabin supercharger would be and their accomplices will be sen-gin functioning Immediately upon tenced to death.
take-off, providing sea level pressure "Second: The press and public up to 10,000 feel, and atmospheric opinion of all classes still express conditions of sympathy for the British, who have foot levels at altitudes between 25,- from 8,000 to 12,000 been driven out of Continental 000 and 30,000 feet. TWA's Boeing Europe. Events in Crete, ill-treat-stratoliner now starts ment in violation of international charger at 8,000 feet and has a nor-
its super law of German prisoners of war not mal ceiling of 20,000 feet. only
were condoned but discussed
with appreciation.
Pro-British Sympathy
Third: In spite of orders to the contrary, sympathy has been
re-
peatedly expressed with British pri- soners of war (presents of flowers, -fruits and cigarettes have been-given
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Present System Proves
in Britain
Still Plentiful
The food position in England, while inconvenient in some ways, is by no means serious, writes a correspondent in "Sydney Daily Telegraph.”
That's the only conclusion one can draw from the frankly half-hearted system of rationing. It is not so serious that the old system of distribution through the pro- fit-making middleman. has. to be interfered with.
French Wit On Food Scarcity
As Husband
As
Edward Blair Linquist, also known as Edward O'Brien,
36, saldier, was committed for trial on two charges of bigamy in the Central Police Court, Sydney, recently, for having al- legedly gone through a form of marriage with three women who sat together in the court.
Poles In Nazi Guise Attack
1.
Police alleged Linguist had mar- ried Phyllis Marizles Blackmore on Jan. 25, 1020, and while still married to her had gone through a form of marriago with Constance Loretta Fogarty, at Woollahra, on Aug. 28, 1035. On Sept, 27, 1040, they alleged, he had gone through a form marriage with Joyce Eilzabeth Wilson at Cowra,
of
In my first few days in Lon-would also have to be demanded don I had an impression that fron canteen eaters, the result of there was an unfair discrimina- which would be to make the task of the middle-class housewife more dif- tion in the food regulations. ncult. After being interviewed at Cax- The real burden of rationing falls ton Hall, Westminster, by a on the housewife. woman official, I had obtained Actually this is what the house- an identification card and ration her family: 1/- worth of meat for un
wife is
is allowed for each member of
Detective-sergeant Sellers sald book.
adult and Bd worth per child per
Linguist had admitted marrying Mrs There are 52-coupons-for-meat, week, eight ounces of fat, which may
Blackmore.__whom he had thought, and 20 each for bacon and ham, be divided as follows, four ounces of
was a war widow. Later, Linquist claimed to have found her husband bulter, sugar.
fat and butter, cooking
two ounces of cooking fat, Iwo Duncea margarine,
Bands of Polish youths, dis-was still alive, and alleged Mes eight wielding their sharp wit against food of margarine; But I soon found I could go into ounces of sugar, two ounces of sea, restrictions, which is about all they guised as German police and Blackmore hnd committed bigamy in
* any cafe or hotel and order a meal one ounce of cheese.
are allowed to attack in their pre- 5.S. men, aro carrying without reference to coupons.
Eggs, which cost 2/6 a dozen, will sent circumstances,
guerilla warfare against the soon be rutioned. Poultry isn't re- Satirte political weekly sheets, once Nazis. toned, nor is bread.
the pace-setters for humour, have;
More If You Pay afford it could dine out three or four Clearly, the household which could times a week and use its week's sup ply of coupons for the remaining three meals at home.
VICHY, May 30.--Frenchmen are
Guerilla-Warfare
Against Germans
on
Eleven Poles were arrested recent-
marrying him.
them. Such manifestations are be- stood on a bridge in Greece holding ing tolerated by Greek police, who up advancing Germans with their New Zealand sergeant have not reacted with, the means at revolvers.
placed two barod their disposal.
wires together and blow the bridge, the officers, and "Fourth: The way the people of himself to smithereens.
Mrs Phyllis Marizles Linquist, Athens behave in general toward This story of Horatian valour is
who gave her maiden name as Wirth, German armed forces is unfriendly. told in a letter from a New Zealand
said she had married Blackmore in "Fifth: Profiteering in Athens has artilleryman who describes the deed surpassed every limit and competent as the grandest thing he ever heard
housewife is virtually at the mercy marching on in the dally press.
For unrationed commodities the disappeared, but their cartoonists go Three such bands are known 912, and he had been reported miss- ing, belleved killed, as in soklier at authorities have failed to take neces- | of.
of her butcher and baker,
to be operating over a wide Great War in 1917. She had not sary mensures to prevent Same,
It was described to him by the sole
Typical is a cartoon of an artist area of Western Poland.
seen Blackmore since 1913. She had Sixth: Almost every commodity survivor of a section of engineers.
The only place where butter is showing a friend a painting he has The youths secure their uniforms last lived with Linguist as man and is sold in Athens to German soldiers "Poor devlis, they had a hell of I found that the more I was will-plentiful is in an officers' mess at an just completed." at prices considerably higher than a time," he said. "As they were ing to pay--the more expensive the Air Force station. That is sensible,
by attacking German police posts wife in 1934. There were two "Do you mean those at which they are sold to last
and part of the policy of keeping friend asks, eyeing a rich display of offices.
to tell me," the and their funds by raiding post children by the marriage,
Two rete way, they had to blow up the menu-50 the food improved, Grecku.
Children At my hotel I was offered hors pilots in the pink of condition.
food on the canvas, me and again, they were nearly d'oeuvres, a choice of sole, turbot, or ally, must not be obscured by float-
"that
Constance Loretta Fogarty said she Night-fighter pilots' vision, espeel-all that from memore you can.do roast lamb, with three or four "At one position they were cut off vegetables, peach melba, and coffee gles, which you and I know to be tell us ngain about the indigestion On the samo order is the one about ink brown spots or transparent wig- the young children saying: "Grandon, by tanks but they hacked their way out and Incidentally helped some
for 15/-,
sims of liverlshness.
you used to have five years ago." One is not supposed to have fishi Austrollans to escape by throwing
Wine Plentiful And meat
menl. Hors. landmines and anything that would d'oeuvres, which give you herrings,
Which brings me to the fact that comes in for its share of "panning." anchovies, and sardines, are a way of beer, wine, and whisky are still ob- A characteristic cartoon was Dne getting
round this.
tainable without restriction.
which showed a conductor going To show me how easily food régu-
Beer has declined in quality, Bre-through 32 stalled train and saying. Intions could be broken, newspaper-wers have had their supplies of "Gentlemen, present your ment tie- men took me to a restaurant, where cercals restricted and have thinned kets. The engineer has just hit a we had hors d'oeuvres, steak, and down the quality of their product. cow. Dinelette garnished with onion, butter And, alas, some breweries have been Food restrictions are not the only fare in Nazi-occupied Poland,
Illegal Meal
"German authorities have tried so far to behave to the Greek people, trapped. properly in every respect. In case orders issued by die German armed forces are, not obeyed they will re- luctantly apply very severe sanc- tions.
"Signed; COMMANDANT.”
explode at the Germans."
Clothes Rationing Produces New Racket In Britain
Clothes rationing, introduced in Britain recently, has pro duced now racket. Operating in air-raid shelters, the racketeers are purchasing coupons from poor people at a maximum price of 2s. each,
These coupons are resold 10 fashionable women's clothing stores at a high price. When clients of these shops hesitate to make a pur-. chase because of the number of con pons required, the
management makes the sale by producing the od- ditional coupons,
"We Will Build
London...
99'
one
(a rare delicacy), and sweets,
ly and accused of belonging to the knew Linguist as Edward Patrick querillas.
O'Brien, and had gone through a "Bandits"
form of marriage with him in 1035. The Nazl paper, "Krakauer Zel-She had last seen him in November, 1940. There were two children, one tacked on one night. Wallers' Insistence on food tickets/ tung," has reported that seven Get-two-years and the other four years
man "military objectives" were at- old, by the marriage.
Joyce Elizabeth Wilson said sho It is also stated that the German had inet Linquist at Cowra where he police are using mechanised units to was in cump with the A.I.F., and had pursue "unndits,"
ones which are
made
and
This significant admission is evi. gone through a form of marriage dence of the increasing guerilla war with him and lived with him as man
wife. blitzed.
Many Poles are still being cen- Mills, said Linquist had deserted The Poilee Prosecutor, Sergeant the butt oftenced to death for alleged "persecu- from the A.L.F. Speaking from the A high staff officer in one of the French humour,
tion" of Germans, in Poland during services told me that one of Hitler's There is a gasoline shortage to the weeks before the Nazis invaded body of the court, Linquist said he This meal of meat and eggs to- serious miscalculation in his war laugh off if possible. A cartoonist the country,
had been reinstated In bolh gether was illegal, and could not against Britain had been the amount ried his best with a drawing in
stances and was now a sergeant in Gentiles in German occupied Po- have been obtained If my friend of food stored in Britain, which, my which a Frenchman meets a couple land are now imprisoned for at-
ke A.I.F. had not known the proprietor. informant said, would lead to his def banged-up friends. "Ol," he
He was committed for trial. says enviously, "then you did manage Jews in ghettos.
tempting to communicate with the The bill came to 30/-a price of fent in the Battle of the Atlantic. .experience,
think that must be true. If it to find some gast"
Permits I have not since been able to ob-wasn't then we would be in very
In Warsaw the ghetto is cut of Several sentences of three months' entirely from the rest of the city. tain steak anywhere in London, bad shape, not merely through a
Imprisonment have been passed in Cracow, where a ghetto had been once a month."
Mail arrives and is, distributed recently established."
All contacts with the outside world Issued for are maintained by a special Jews
Nor will the decision to slaughter) possible food shortage but because of 300,000 head of Britain's cattle (be- cause of the shortage of feed) bring beefstake any closer.
Because this meat will be mado TORONTO, June 4-Dorothy into sausages, which (with the law This is one of the rackets with Thompson concluded her address at providing that not more than 45 per which, the Board of Trade President a women's victory loan rally here cont, of sausages shall be Is already confronted..
ment) will Another racket concerns wealthy which, she said, had been written on
with words of the poet, T. S. Ellot, make about 1,200,000,000 sausages.
I discovered that at any one of 700 women who give their servants cast-her dinner programme on a recent communal kitchens run by voluntary off clothing in exchange for cou-viait to Canada by Leonard W. service workers I could get a satis
factory meal of plain food very cheaply-roast beef, notatres, anet cabbage or salad for Dd: rhubarb tart, 4d; roll and butter, 20; and
coffee 3d.
ponn.
Food-Stealing' Gangs Food-stealing gangs are still work- Jag successfully in Lendon.
They have looted suburban re- tallers' shops to satisfy receivers" de- mands for fate,' sugar, butter, and coaned fruits.
The Tobacco Controller (Mr A. H. Maxwell) has appointed a team of experts to help him solve the cigar-
elto famine.
Manufacturers claim that their de- liveries to retailers are according to schedule, but the cigarette famine 10 more acute.
Brockington, special wartime assist ant to the Canadian Prime Minister:
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In dark air; Of new bricks and moriar
Beside
side the Thames bord... Queen of island and water, A house for our Lord;
A church for all of us And work for all of us, And God's word for all of us Unto this last.
Some women, unable to obtain
Down In the East Pool I had ne ment at a exnteesi, It consisted of Яuet dumpling with a suspleten of mashed potatoes and . mahbare. melard fart, and a cup of tea for Bd.
At-neither cafe nor canteen was I asked for ration tickets. So, I thought, it cut both ways. That, at least, is the official view,
High-nriced · Extras The Goverment's - answer
to
More cigarette smokors have taken to pipes, but many found recently a cigarettes, have bought pipes and charges of unfairness in rationing is new notice in shop windows: "No tobacco, but have not yet been seen that it coupons were demanded from Tobáren.
ambking them In-publi
restaurant" and "hotel" eaten, they!
LONDON.-Major A. W, Briscow, what would then be demonstrable: South African cricketer who played our inability to make and administer against Australia, Was killed in Inws unpopular with business.
action.
Special permits nre traffic entering the ghetto.
Smokers who desire
the best ask for-
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