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Catholic School Adopts Mighty Battleship
HMS Vanguard, Britain's mightiest battleship which will! carry King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to South Africa; | bas received a crucifix from a Catholic school--St. John's, Dundeo-which has "adopted" the vessel
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THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT THE JAPSI
BEHIND THE BISING SUN
Based in the Book
By James H. Young
wich MAROD »TOM HEAL « J.CARROL NAISH
ROBERT RYAN GLORIA HOLDEN Directed by EDWARD DRAYTRYK
NEXT CHANGE
at the
ALHAMBRA
of theso
Catholle
Pupils of St. John's will supply Install a Catholle chaplain in every Catholle sailors aboard the Vanguard Brilian port with a centre to which with Catholic and other literature, comch can resort and, in time, to and with comforta
provide Catholic hostels that Will The crucifix was sent when the combine all the benefits of the best school heard that one was needed modern club with a chapel for for the altar during the celebration spiritual needs, of Aloss.
oldest ...The.. This
practice of adopting worships heamen's clubs in Europe is in the and other vessels by Gsthalle schools of London chaplaincy on the Is part of the service rendered to hortit side of the Iuver Thames. seafaring men in the wide and There is another chaplaincy south useful work of a well-known Brillah of the river, end the chaplains make voluntary welfare service for sailors, a point of visiting every ship that the Apostleship of the Ben
docks, making known to Catholics The purpose of the Apostleship is aboard where Mass and the Satu to keep before Catholle eyes the ments may be found, the address of poculiar needs of those, whose calling the local Catholic centre where cuts them off from the normal information about lodgings can be amenities of life and the con- obtained and where club rooms RID #olations of religion. It aims to available.
"Darling! I never knew
you cared
WILLIAM HICKEY
Disarming question
C
“RANT ́of, war gratuities to coastguarda is still being
Sitting on the
NYE BEVAN permitting, this
will be the last winter in The Nest, once known as Tot- tering Towers on account of the state of its roof, and some- times as The Igloo because of the ice formations that hang from the bathroom waste pipo in the cold weather..
As a matter of fact, un igloo would be warmer because an igloo is at least draught-proof, with no leaky windows to let in the wild
north-east winds.
Cut off from his body-warming blubber, no Eskima could spend on English winter in The Nest and live. Your Uncle Nat has survived only by staying in bed on the coldest days, { and letting the women of the house stamp about the freezing kitchen, blowing on their blue Oncers.
So in the spring (Nye Reven permitting)
ANTI
Fence
by NATHANIEL GUBBINS
He might be worried by seagulls, worry about that-people who at whose eries remind him of the cries least of babies with tummy troubles: he
have enough brains to know might be worried by the Salvation what they're worrying about. It Army hand, which, he in informed, might be better if worm worried 'pinys outside the Sea Nest Sunday morning; and he might also City and tried to get on in world and every little more about office boy's job in be worried by visitors in the
mer.
Visitors
sum-
2
proper
"My husband saya ke wants to live to be 100, because he thinks that's the only way to get his income tax rebate."
"The only way I can keep cheer- ful about present taxation is to bo- lleve in reincarnation.”
"If you don't know you've been reincarnated and don't know you've been paying-high taxes in a past life to make a new life more tolerable. I can't see the point of it."
"My husband says that Com- muniam could never succeed in m free country because you would never get enough free people to vole for it."
"If you ask me, they won't take petrol of the ration because they're saving it up for something."
"Dorling, don't start
rumours.
provide proper home with curtains, like gas manager, instead of being satisfied to be at beck and call of every Tom, Dick and Harry for ALL residents in seaside towns, paltry pittance.
except those who make money out of them, are worried by visitors of another
And if cowardly worm is thinking
war in the summer.
ho needn't worry John Bull, I suppose Clement Att- about that either. If worm is not Ico is a public school John Balt."
It's as bad as the war."
" Ernie Bevin is a working class
argued and getting nowhere.
'To be frank, visitors to Renside too old and stupid by then with your Uncle Nat will towns in the summer are thoroughly health ruined by drink, worm will "It's no good making cracks like Саве scoms to rest on move to a new hest, which in a hated by the
be back residents. Even by
in silly Home Guard that at a party like this. None of whether the Treasury con-blitzed fisherman's cottage, bang on some who take their money.
uniform, wearing silly medal rib- them has read any history." science
bons happily swashbuckling about can be pricked hard the little senfront opposite the Good- But this does not appear to be the in big boots and telling hasty little "Brenda's husband's dreading enough to remember earlier ex- win Sands, where American mer-kind of senside town which attracts jokes to witty worm friends in low it only means more of her awful mare, imports of food because to him hortations and recognise const-chant ships are
always providing visitors who attract hatred from the invern, leaving wife plone to be
residents.
blown to.smithereens by guards as Armed Forces of the front-page news.
bombs. Crown.
There has been a long argument about what was
damage and what was collapse through old age Naval and the weather.
War
When the war started they were placed under Admiralty orders, borne on the strength of HMS Prest- dent II, and subject to the Discipline Act.
As might be expected, your Uncle They were given naval ranks; a constguard becoming a leading seu-s been defeated in most of the arguments. Your Uncle never had any luck In such matters, and, although descended from hardy peasants low cunning. pensant stock, has none of the hardy
man whether he would or no; and the force was excluded fron PAYE as Armed Forces of the Crown.
Many of the men were RNR, were not mobilised because Lisey were al- ready considered as serving: they It has taken nearly a year to get were armed, too; Sten guns, rides, a building licence Journalists are so and anything else they could get. influentint), and it may take another On being disestablished, they year to get a bath and a boiler. crused "to be regarded as members | Bul, as he says (Nye Bevan permit- of the Armed Forces of the Crown."ting), your Uncle will be there
the spring.
IN
lengthy explanation
why publicans may not be magis- trates, Lord Chancellor JOWITT suld that by reason of their cailing they were brought into contact with what was going on, and might be difficult for a licence-holder to avoid hearing discussion of cases on which he would have to adjudiente.
Just barred.
NE
JEW London telephone directory
lists three firms styling them selves "Atomic." Though you can't keep a good word out, there seems something redundant about Atomic Pulverisers Ltd.'
WEALTHY people are investing W capital in diamonds: not-so-rich
иго pulting money into postage stamps.
Reason is the same in both cases; a frm International value which is I still rising.
Neighbours
In
There is no pler. It was smashed or burned (nobody seems to be sure which) during thủ war.
The bathing is dangerous because of wrecks near the shore. Paddling is positively suicidal, especially to the dear little kiddien, because the water is several feet deep as snot as you step Into It.
atom cooking."
"Margaret's father thinks that
who holds up would anybody
whisky stay supplica or impedes Its production when should be tried as an enemy of the
State,"
wonder they don't put foot. hallers up in the market-place with chains round their necks and dit for them,"
worm
What's more, another war give worn another chance to out all night on exercises everybody knows
sex-mod was taking blonde barmaid to plc- tures, another excuse to go about showing off with armed to teeth dangerous wenpons, and another ex- cuse not to buy new furniture and curtains.
Wife could
understand
worm
"!
"It's hypocritical to say that the British public doesn't want to see Britain, like every other country, is the plctures of the executed Nazis. full of ghouls, who them."
want to ECO
There is no sand for the dear little kiddies to dig in and scream in com- petition with the seagulls.
So I we have a lot of visitors they worrying if worm had world stun will not be the kind of visitors who tion at Anger-tips like gas manager, want that kind of thing which can be who not only manages gas, but is found at Margate or Brighton orchlet speaker at Rotary Club, chair- Haslings.
man of urban district council, never "Why can't a Socialist Govern- has more than two small cherries ment lower the tax on unearned in- before punctual takes wife out twice a week, Mon-goods?"
at seven, conies and treble the tax on luzury days and Thursdays, and has provid- ed new dining-room curtains since 1939, coupons or no coupons,
Your Uncle devoutly hopes they will be the kind of visitors who spend all the day fishing and feel too il to drink up all the liquor in the evening the kind of visitors who do
sers.
dinner
twice "Because nobody would buy the
luxury goods."
"Women woll
fool
coata."
THEN he is thern, your Uncle not walk along the front 1 gangs, As it is worm knows nothing about
always have fur will have Mr Noel Coward at singing out of tune, arm in arm with world situation, would make a some distance on his left and, if hen-blistered women in tight trou-of himself if he spoke at Rotary Club.
can hardly manage to pay gan bill "My husband says that millions a takes up residence as Warden of the
And as for the Salvation Army, he let alone manage gas, and spends year are lost to the revenue because Cinque Ports, Mr. Winston Churchill, at a shorter distance, an his right.
most
of many on cadging worm so far nobody has been able to work Directly in front of him will be the
te little dinners as reliet from mono- friendis instead of taking wife out out a betting tax." tea and France and, during
tonous drudgery in pigsty
"Magaret's father says that any boats. renson, a lot of visitors being sick in
should include the clause future indictment of war criminala not only
that he launched an apprcisive
the
Residents in the other shermen's cottages along the little street include learned dge who spenis bis vacations there, some retired Ser-
hopes they won': try to grab him for before he can nip into one of the a song and a bung on the tambourine little public houses before lunch on Sundays.
vice people; a few boarding-house C keepers and almost anybody who is
not a fisherman.
Diary of a worm
(At the request of James Agate)
LOOMY WORTH Arrives
home
So far as wife is concerned they can drop atom bombs as soon as they like as it couldn't be worse than working Angers to boue all morning walling in queues all afternoon and listening to worn storing all night. And as worm is never likely to be saying he is worried about 200
more than office slave and laughing Russian divisions in Europe.
stack of City wife wouldn't care if Oh, so that is what worm is war were declared The rest of the neighbourhood is worried about, is it? At first fobishi would at least save her humila- to-morrow 12:3 almost entirely Alled with public wife thought that selfish worm might tion of selling up home and furni hnuses, all doing good business ex-be worrying for once about herture, including curtains full of holes,
housework she and ending up in gutter. has to do without help, or dirty Worm's-avenue because worm hasn't enough gumption to get repair licence.
lect to import and export control. a German shell and one which was ceilings and paint which are a dig
to
As with Jowels, stamps are sub-cept two, one which was blasted by neuralgia, or the
vacated when the Germans were may not be smuggled. Yet as Mr STANLEY PHILLIPS told me in-blasting the whole place with shells, grace ancial stability has brought buyers
When they are also doing good
spend a week or two in London for the sake of his health.
to the world's stamp markets who business your Uncle will have to cannot be called philatelists.
He has been for 40 years willi London's oldest firm of stamp dealers, said that genuine collectory
heartily dislike this forcing-up of prices, which limits their chances of buying ปี much-wanted specimen.
On the other hand, value of collec- tions has greatly increased.
Many first issues are up by more than 100 percent, some für higher.
Sets of Falkland Islands centenary Izaue cost about £25 before the war are now more than £70, rise typical of many similar issues.
How many people collect stamps? Mr Phillips is certain it is one 20, but thinks it may be nearer on In ten. And is world enthusiasm!
in
QUCCESS of well-fed French race
horses gives point to news of more than 1,000′ well-fed German dogs on show in Hamburg, including 10 hefty Newfoundlands. It proves something.
EVERY morning at 11 o'clock the carillon of St Mary's parish church, Taunton, recently restored as memorial to men of the Somerset Light Infantry, ploys: "Drink to me only with thine eyes."
They open at 11.
THE Select Committee reporting on the House of Lords recom- menda
"That when a division is called In the House, the interval of time be- tween the order 'Clear the Bar and the Question being finally put should t extended from two minutes four minutes."
It sounds suspiciously ke double.
to
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CISSORED by Reader W. G.
DERIN, of Bolidn
"Donohoe, Chimne
Sweep
cleanest man in the Black Market."
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Natives have uttered many_warn ings about the severity of the win- ters on this exposed corner of the south-east coast.
Party conversation MARGARET'S father says that And, who, wife might ask, is
they had done nothing else worm to worry about 200 Russian the Nazis deserved to hang for ucing divisions in Europe? Surely there tho' chlet causes of a world whisky are enough people in Parliament to shortage."
According To Culbertson
(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)
That is because they know nothing of the severity of the winters in The Surray Nest, which is forty miles from the sea, but 000 ft above sen blow across the Downs and colder to accept a notrump contract when when he accepted the three no trump' level, exposed to all the gales that
The average player is too prone North was gulty of a serious error than the Yorkshire moors, according he is vold in a suit which partner han contract. His thought was that the to people who Yorkshire moors.
have lived on
the bid. He assumes,
no-trump
of course, that
partner has that suit well stopped, combined hands might not be able And as he hopes the windows of to consider that the lack of commu-was a faulty conception: A
which often is the fact, but he fails to win more than nine tricks, but this the Sea Nest are going to be draught nication cards in the suit is apt to like North's will almost
hand proof and the roof in proper repair make
certainly play unwieldy. (Nye Bevan permitting) your Unele Morcover, though partner has no play better (perhaps by two or three won't worry about that.
reason to fear a sult in which he tricks) at a sult contract than in no holds something like A-10-x-x-x, trump, the only exception occurring there is no assurance that such a when partner has a long, solid suit holding, opposite avoid, will pro- duce two tricks. Consider the follow-opposite the vold. South's bidding ing deal:
did not Indicate such a diamond suit; with it, he probably would have jjumped in no trump over North's ong spade. Instead of mentioning another tuit en route.
RELEASE OCTOBER 14.
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DUMB-
REGISTERED USI
GETTING MARRIED, WHAT ABOUT THE BANNS?
Credit for a Field Goal
AUNT FRITZI I'M BAČK FROM THE
STORE.
FPOINT OFFEE
OH!, NEVER. MIND THE BANDS THE ORGAN IS GOOD ENOUGH
FOR US!
LOOK ---- I DROPPED THE BREAD AND I COULDN'T PICK IT UP
Rubber Bridge.
South denter..
Both sides vulnerable..
WEST
NORTH 428.5.3.2 ❤Q. J'10 8
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EAST
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SOUTH
• AK 72 A 10 6 8 2 LAS. The bidding:
Wa
North
si trang Pas
IT'S LUCKY · YOU. DROPPED IT:SO CLOSE TO HOME
West opened the diamond queen and declarer soon found that he was à vital trick short of:contract. The diamond ace was held ́up, “but . On East'e play of the seven, West con- fiinued with a low diamond. East's king also was allowed to hold, but on a third diamond lead declarer wan with the acc. Now declarer led the nce and a low club. West ducked and the fack won. A spade was led to the ace and a spade returned, de- clarer hoping to establish the queen. East, however, smothered the queen, cashed the 10-9 of, spodes, and re- turned a club, West cashed his club king and diamond jack, thereby set- ling the contract two tricka,
If North had properly persisted to four hearts, South would have had no dificulty.
By Ernie Bushmiller
I DROPPED IT OUTSIDE OF THE STORE AND KICKED IT ALL THE WAY
HOME
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