1940-06-14 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 14, 1940

News Snack

Snack Bar

"La Lumiere"

Paric

"And why would we go to Swe- don?" "To get the Nobel Peace Prize for the Fuehrer."

News Leakage Inquiry

"Z" CLUE TO THREE MURDERS

New York, May 24.

THE LETTER Z has provided an important clue in the murders of the three men whose dismembered bodies were found in railway freight vans sent from Struthers, Ohio, to Pittsburg, for breaking up.

The word Nazi had been cut in large letters in the dismem

bered parts. In each case the "Z" was written the

wrong way round.

The District Attorney has suggested

that 180 other old cars in the railway Thieves Beat

yards at Youngstown, Ohio, should

now be searched for further victims-

believed to have been slain by Cleve- The Budget

land's "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury," to whom a dozen unsolved murders have-

With the apparent intention of been attributed in the past five years. evading Budget proposals, thieves

EX-GANGSTER'S FÉAR

broke into a Slough (Bucks) · to- Leakage of military news* valuable

According to Rene Viosca, attorney bacconists, and stole 213,000 cigarettes to Germany via the German diplo- prosecuting in the slot machine racket and 800oz. of tobacco. matic bag from Dublin to Berlin is trial at New Orleans; . J. Richard The value of the haul was £500. being investigated.

"Dixie" Davis, one-time "mouthpiece" - The Minister of Information said for New York's Dutch Schultz gang, that in Parliament.

Baby Born In Car

A baby-a

car

boy-was born

in a in a busy shopping centre in Cambridge.

A nurse, Miss Muriel Postlewaite, was called from a chemist's to attend her. The mother and son were then rushed to a Cambridge nursing, home. Both are doing well.

The mother, Mrs. Roberts, of Great Chesterford, had been driven to Cam- bridge with her husband. Mrs. Ro- berts had had her first baby weighed in the chemist's where the nurse works and specially asked for her.

Army May Soon

Eat Antelope

British troops may soon be eating biltong, the sun-dried meat of antelope and oxen.

At least, the suggestion has been put to the South African Defence De- partment.

One shipload of biltong could last an army for months, thus freeing boats for other necessitles. It is also pointed

has asked the Government to put him In protective custody while he is giv- ing evidence.

Davis, who arrived by road from California, will testify against six men charged with evading payment of tax

on incomes derived from the racket.

it is understood that Davis, a dia- barred lawyer; is accompanied by his wife, the red-haired ex-show girl, Hope Dare.

WHITE SLAVE REVELATIONS Revelations of the operations of a white slavery ring among unsuccessful Hollywood film extras are expected at the Hollywood trial of seven people indicted by a Grand Jury for operat- ing the ring.

The ring is alleged to have worked

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Bell Reminds Village

There's A War On

At noon every day the church bell at Sigglesthorne, East Yorkshire vil lage, is rung twenty times. And vil- lagers hearing it pause and give a thought for the men who are fighting Britain's battles.

-Aur Ecoutea

Hitler: "Then shall we go on and

make Europe shiver?” Stalin: "I'm going to sit back and rest. The last adventure has worn me out.""

German Girl, 25,

Prisoner

A blonde German girl prisoner, aged about twenty-five, was landed at a port on the East Coast of Scotland yesterday.

Later she was taken under guard by train to an unknown destination. -

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Local Boys Too Slow

The young men of Caerleon, Mon, are slow and causing the girls to go outside the district for husbands. The vicar of Caerleon, the Rev. H: O. Williams, expressed this view at the annual vestry meeting.

It's the vicar's plan to keep Siggle--- thorne folk mindful of the fact that the fact that so few weddings took A few years ago the vicar deplored there's a war on.

place at Caerleon.

from Chicago to the West Coast, and Railway Salvages Scrap,

from the Canadian border to Mexico,

Among the accused are Helen Reid,

Dolly Dupres and Edith Jones, all of Pulls Down Iron Fences

San Bernardino, described as "in-

Raider In Cathedral

Valuable silver plate was untouch- ed when a burglar who raided Lich- field Cathedral rifled the contents of offertory boxes, and made off by structresses," who have announced A big "salvage drive" has been climbing a ladder and breaking a win- that they will surrender within a day; launched throughout the LM.S. Rail- dow. Bristol Barrett, aged 20, a handsome way. At passenger stations,, goods young Jitterbug, accused of being the depots, marshalling yards and en- have remamed behind after evensong It is thought that the burglar may "lure," who canvassed dance-halls gineering depots containers are being and made his escape during the night. and cabarets; Charles Montgomery, a provided for the collection of usable. middle-aged mulatto; and Ann Forst, waste. an attractive white woman known as the "Black widow.”

out that one man can easily carry a Sparrows Used To

week's ration. The Boer's used, biltong

in the South African War. It is claim ed that biltong helped the Japanese to win the Russo-Japanese War.

Co-operation With U.S.

Follow Him About

Birds sang his requiem at the funeral of the Rev. Daniel Fisher at Newton, Porthcawl (Glam) as his coffin was borne through the bird sanctuary he had made.

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Iron railings, round railway houses

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and other property are being removed, "Only England Safe"

and line-side trees suitable for timber may be cut down..

A young Spanish stowaway jumped from a Dutch vessel off Deal and at- tempted to swim ashore, a distance of

Dying Mare Was Lonely about a mile and a half. The icy cold

water beat him and he had to be res- cued.

If Damsel, a six-year-old mare be-

His cries for help were heard by longing to Mr. W. L. Hocking, of those on board the ship, on other Withymore Farm, Marlborough, De- vessels near by, and from the shore. vón, had died in her box nothing Coxswain Mercer, of the Walmer Major Victor Cazalet, Conservative

would have been heard of her. lifeboat, said: "I summoned my. M.P. for Chippenham, urged that Mr. Fisher was known as the Little But she has made news, because crew and out we went. When we Britain should offer the United States St. Francis of Wales. When he walk when she was taken ill during the reached the spot he had been picked a free port with full sovereign rights ed in the village he always had an night she'

out of the water and was being taken in the West Indies for her navy to be escort of sparrows. They followed him Broke the halter with which she back to the ship he jumped from. nearer South America. It would be to church on Sundays and waited for was tied; lifted the latch of the "In broken English he told the cap- a gesture of friendliness, he suggested, him to return.

stable door; trotted a mile in the tain of the Dutch ship that he stowed and could be taken in part payment of Mr. Fisher was seventy-eight. darkness to. Mr. Alfred Hannaford's himself on board at Las Palmas as he

His favourite birds were "Robi Ma- cottage; went through the gate, up wanted to get to England. Major Cazalet also advocated the jor"-who fed from his hand and at the path and collapsed in the garden." "Anywhere in England would do union of the American and British dawn flew through the open bedroom She was found dead in the garden in for him, he said. It was the only safe fleets after the war for the preserva- window-perched on the bedrail and the morning.

country... tion of the freedom of the seas and sang a' reveille "Mother Goose," a Mr. Hannaford was the man who the common ideals of civilisation. thrush, and "Jane Ann," a one-legged cared for Damsel-but she had never board and will make him work his

sparrow.

been to his cottage before.

passage."

our debt.

Wardens Vindicated

A report by the Hon. A. Howard, Principal Warden of the London Re- gion, following a secret inquiry, has vindicated the Croydon air raid war- dens' service.

In the report which was presented to Croydon Town Council, Mr. Howard stated: "So far from there being evid ence of general inefficiency, I am of opinion that the standard of effciency. of the headquarters administration and of the effective personnel of the Croy- don wardens' organisation.... compares not unfavourably with that of other Loroughs in the region."

"The captain is keeping him on