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Sitting on the
Further
100$
given before a rúb-commiż- sion on the Press inquiring into the newspaper activi- ties of Nathaniel Gubbins and the reliability of in- formation published in his column and elsewhere.
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Fence....
by
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
THE CHAIRMAN: ocial circle,
whicht
was well known in his CHAIRMAN: So your rolo as
but Answering a question parlours of Walham Green and less?
not in the a private detective was point- last week, you stated Camberwell, where most of his GUBBINS: Yes. that you were once a gossip readers lived, editor. Were you at that time employed by any of the Express group of news papers?
GUBBINS: No.
CHAIRMAN. What gossip did you exilt?
level?
sort of
Iunching "quietly Why
A member of the Commission; ...RMAN:
Did you ever a murderer? GUDMINS: No. CHAIRMAN: Then what did
GUBBINS: I assumed they were not sucking their soup or you write about?
owling over chicken bones. CHAIRMAN: I understand you were red from this Job.
GLOBINS: Assuming the name of the victim was Little Nell, the
first message from the of the crime would read: Mystery surrounds the
death of Little Nell, who was brutally
reene
the eve of her coronation
ure bamed."
Better Eating
Ban Costs Britain Dollars
By EDWARD KEELING, Conservative MP For Twickenham
LTHOUGH high taxa wero Americans visiting Britain tion has brought about who wanted to spend more than
a dollar on a meal a drastic redistribu- tion of wealth, in Britain a Hotel-keepers bellevo if they man may, with one excep would spend much more, and were allowed many of them tion, still spend his net in- tint come in buying what ho from their European tour, or not a few omit Britain plenses.
curtail their siny and cross the
food
Anybody who can afford Channel, because of the better it may still buy a mansion else, including even Germany,
obtainable everywhero in preference to a cottage, a Corot instead of an oleo- seems folly for us to throw-- graph, carnations instead are in such dire need. Can it nway the dollars of which Wo of cornflowers, champagne be doubted that the 5. limit instead of elder. a stxij also drives abroad tens of rather than a seat in the thousands of Britons who on pit.
holiday seek the best food they con afford?
The one exception is that the inw
forbids the spending, el moro than five shillings on a real in a restaurant or hotel, unless is overhead expenses Justify a "house charge," and unless also a price of over five shillings was charged before 1042.
In addition. penalties are pre- 15scribed for the serving of more Queen of the May. The police than three courses, or of mora than one "main" and one "sub- A member of the Commission: diary dish (the definition of Who became Queen of
which is complicated), May7.
GUBBINS: Harpo Marx.
Dialling TUM
the
ww.
ALL HAPPY OR those vellors and
sidents, whose appetites or means are small there will al ways be plenty of restaurants to provide a meal for 5s. or less. Experience shows, indeed, that the maximum price is often the minimum, especially there is a house charge.
- where
The removal of control might well CAUSO D fall in the minimum as well as à rise in the maximum.
Dr. Summerskii! pointed out
We are told by Dr Edith Suminerskill that to spend more or 10
cat longer, than these during the debate that If the 50. modest Imits permit, is "osten- and three-course limits were
more unrationed. tatious feeding," which would withdrawn
foods unjust and unfair 100 would be enten in res- to the great majority of the nurants. This is true, but the
and in people,"
UBBINS was then questioned "grossly
by the Chairman about his stomach.
THE CHAIRMAN: According to investigations by our research workers. you have published correspondence alleged to have taken place between yourself and your stomach?
with the
samu
GUDDINS: That is correct. CHAIRMAN: Also telephone conversations organ?
GUBBINS: Quite right. CHAIRMAN: Would you
Why?
GUBBINS: I was one of the first to notice from photographa GUBBINS: Social.
that English society women murdered
in a wood near here agree that the publication of like horses. During # on the night she heard the glad the letters and conversation looked CHAIRMAN: At what social mental lapse after a party i news that she had been chosen was 11 deliberate attempt to
once wrote, "Lady, whose Queen of the May."
deceive the public? mother was, of course, a horse." CHAIRMAN: If no arrest had GUBBINS: No.
CHAIRMAN: Was an aellon taken place what would you for libel brought against this write the next day? newspaper/
CUBDINS: "Mystery con- tinues to surround the death of Little Nell....'
GUBBINS: The highest.
CHAIRMAN: Were
you on intimate terms with people moving in the highest social circles?
GUBBINS: No.
CUBBINS: Yes, by a horse,
Fun
You also stated in evidence that you
CHAIRMAN: Did you ever THE CHAIRMAN: meet any of them mentioned in your gossip?
GUBBINS: Never."
CHAIRMAN. Why?
GUDBINS: Elther they didn't want to meet mo or I didn't
want to meet them.
wert
onco a funny reporter, Can you give un example of fungy reporting?
GUBBINS: I was once sent is
particular point is academic. The
propor- tion of our total food supplies, whether rationed or
or unrationed eaten. In restaurants is anyhow smail. the control were withdrawn. the only increase in consumption would be in ca- tablishments charging more than three courses for that sum. Ss, or able to provide more than
would "incense the housewives." TOURIST BOARD Two years ago the G in
ment set up the Tourist and Holidays Board, subsidising it to the tune of nearly £500,000
year.
According to a return recently Presented to Parliament, res- taurants which
chargo more
ΠΟΥ
In its report, published re- cently, this body says categori-
that the maximum is detrimental to the been sanctioned) total only 400 cally
five-shilling
(a house charge having improvement of catering ser- vices, that its withdrawal would in the entire Kingdom. No doubt CHAIRMAN: Are you telling make for the happier reception consumption would riso if
were revoked, but the effect on the supplies available the Commission that these con-
need for price control of to housewives would be neglig→ fact take versations ld in
exists. place?
ible. GUBBINS: Yes. And still do. CHAIRMAN: Can you prove
CHAIRMAN: And if no arrest . {? was made for a week or more?
GUBBINS: "Never" in tbo story of this little old world village has so much indignation boen aroused at the mysterious murder of Little Nell, brutally
a seaside town to interview an done to death by what is be old man in a boarding house loved to be a blunt instrument was shooting arrows at in the hands of a maniac, on who visitors from his bedroom win- dow.
A member of the Commission: i Did he hit anybody?
GUBBINS: When I arrived he
had hit two women and a chair attendant,
CHAIRMAN: If you know nothing about these people, how could you write or edit any thing written about them?
Gubbins said that was child's play,
he was Gossip then? When Editor he had written an intl- GUBBINS: Mole nurses from male eye-witness account of a the local asylum took him away,
CHAIRMAN: What happened
state wedding two hours before CHAIRMAN: Any other ex- it happened.
amples?
GUBBINS: On another occa-
CHAIRMAN: Why before it slon 1 was sent to interview
happened?
To catch an GUBBINS: edition printed before it happen- ed:
CHAIRMAN; As you knew nothing at all about the prople mentioned in your gosalp, didiz't they complain about in- accuracies?
GUBBINS: Not if you always said the women were beautiful, wity, and fond of horses,
CHAIRMAN: How did you know what they were doing?
GUBBINS: They were always
eating
CHAIRMAN: How did you know where?
. GUBBINS: I telephoned hotel managers who wanted publicity for their hotels.
CHAIRMAN: When you had oblained this startling informa-. tion, what did you write?
GUBBINS:
next to lovely Lady A lunching
rallway porter with the longest moustache in England.
A member of the Commistion;
C.V.R.
GUBBINS: Yes. Listen.
[Gubbins's stomach then ob- liged with a low rumbic.]
A member of the Commission: What is it saying?
GUBBINS, asking for lunch, CHAIRMAN: We will
adjourn.
now
-(London Express Service)
of overseas The
locs, and that visitors,
meals longer
In
reaching these conclusions, the Board had at its disposal not only the evidence taurant keepers but the answers
of res-
limits
虞
NO LIMIT
ON
N the other hand, the extra. dollars earned by encourag-
every. ing
American and
to questionnaires issued by the Travel Association to visitors.
Dr Summerskül, however, sald Canadien to eat as expensively big groups of as his own appetite and British
there
membered
of
recently that visitors would be "appulled" at ecoking may tempt him would the removal of the maximum procuro increased supplies price.
trans-Atlantic food, which would But Mr Donovan (Sociallst be available to housewives. MP) pointed out that
The regulations seem the more ill-advised when it is 10+ (1) that on British ships bringing tourists to Britain there is no limit to the number of courses, and alto (if the ship has an a la carte restaurant) no limit to what the passenger may pay; (2)
that anybody mny spend as much as he pleases on unrationed food to be eaten in his own home, some of which. though too dear to be included imported by Dr Summerskil's in a restaurant meal, is actually deportment!
Thompson Reports
The American Scene
NEW YORK.
new
PLEDGE to "take" austerity
BRITISH ACTORS are in de-
mand to play opposite. Hol- and not complain, has been David Niven is inade by 83 American teachers wood's stars.
a year's being mentioned for a romantic who have sailed for comedy with Rita Hayworth, exchange with British teachers. James Macon, being heard in
DOCK STRIKE in plays over America's radio, has THE beef cast opposite Greta Garbo Hawail shows no sign of In her first picture for eight being selfled. And Congress has dropped plans to admit the island of orchids and ukeleles as
BROADWAY'S
glamour girl" is a 70- year-old Englishwoman. Her flut is filled with orchids and roses. 'Her life story, with pictures, recently covered the principal news years. page of un' evening news- paper.
secrets
"and We need
1
WINE IN FOOD
How long?
GUBBINS: Twelve inches
INCE the control was in- from tip to tip.
stituted in 1942, the *x* CHAIRMAN: Why did he
penses of restaurants have risen Krow it?
steeply, as a result of higher GUBBINS: I didn't ask him,
food prices and the entering CHAIRMAN: What did you
TRUST THE BRITISH on the the 49th State of the Union, wages orders. ask him?
stom, sald General Eisen-
It is impossible for many of NIGHTMARE haunts pyjama those with a high standard to GUBBINS 'I asked him to She is Ethel Grimes, an ex- hower at the hush-hush White
In the Ilouse conference on Shakespearlan actress,
sharing A makers. ent a soft boiled egg with me.
They are selling mako a proft within the law £100,000 musical "Miss Liberty" bomb
with CHAIRMAN: What for?
Britain. American men only one-third except by inflated prices for GUBBINS: While he was ent. she plays a broken-down coun- "But don't the Britich need us?" of a pyloma cach a year. So wine. Resort may also be had. ing the egg I bet him a pint hotes,
gaolbird who sicals he was asked. "Yes," repiled many men sleep without them to quite legal evasions such as. couldn't say "Peter Piper picked flowers from graveyards to sell. Eisenhower,
that there is to be a big pub-serving oysters or lobsters in or licily campaign to sell the idea bar (or even in bedrooms) out- CHAIRMAN: Did he try?
stolen the show. Some among
side the regular meal, or putting she has saved IGARETTES are down to 7d. that night-ciothes are healthy,
a little wine or spirit Into the CUBBINS: Unfortunately, yes, them add that
for 20. Washington est- CWEETER KISSES arc in food and making a substantial The critics were cold about males
Cripps dollar prospect for American,men. charge for it, the show
will mean 37 million Saccharino is being added 10: as a whole. They cuts
By these and other extras pounds less Virginia tobacco for warmly praised her acting.
11psticks.
the price of a meal (excluding In 1047 Miss Griffes retired Britain this year.
THE CHEROKEE scalplock In drink) may lawfully be swollen to return to England, At the
Americans are then both con- sters," the new-type fud of teen-age boys. They last minute she had stage and chicken, will be on the US shear their heads except for a
fused by the complicated bill television offers, and accepted market this year. By careful two-inch strip
and annoyed that the five- them.
broeding and feeding they
plied so many times. That is
a peck of pickled pepper cornis."" Audiences may she has also them."
Murder
that the
from the theatre, and prepared TWENTY MILLION "Kroll T nowest hot-weather to £2 or more.
of hair across shilling mit has been multi-
HAIRMAN: You have also Something ka stated that you were once a Usia. "Your little Gadabout was crime reporter. What sort of a very lucky girl to be sitting crime?
GUBBINS: Murder. quietly at The Splitz with CHAIRMAN: Was your object charming, witty Lady B, who is to discover the identity of the of course, one of the Norfolk murderer for your paper? B's and Is frightfully fond of
GUBBINS Yes, CHAIRMAN: horses."
If you had, countess part." CHAIRMAN: Why of could you have published hử Now her return may be fur- - course'
ther delayed, because Holly THE LIQUOR INDUSTRY feeding dried orange pulp to 12 A control so harmful, which GUBBINS: It, gave the im- GUBBINS: Not until the wood always takes great in- has made a £5,000 grant steers. They have gained 300lb. seems to serve. no interest, pression that the writer was police had charged him with the terest in: Broadway, glamour to the National Safety Council oplece and dio · "meat" tastes would be better removed. carelessly offering Information crime.
gris.
to combat drunken driving. "excellent."
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By Ernio Bushmiller
LATER AT HOME
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