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This picture hlustrating tw gụn Jack Benny's carefree way with a revolver, will give you some indication of how he became the terror of the range in Paramount's "Buck Benny Rides Again," which opens to-morrow at the Queen's and Al- hambra Theatres. The lovely cowgirl is Ellen Drew.
IRISH CHIEFS MAY MEET IN LONDON
FAILING RECONCILIATION between the
BATTERED BOMBER'S ORDEAL
Caught in a gunfire bar- rage which he said could only be described as "ter- rific," the pilot of a night bomber carried out his alloted job of work and re- turned to his home base with shell holes through both wings, both rudders and one airscrew damag- ed and the tail wheel smashed.
The bomber's objective was art important naval target in Ger-
many.
river.
They reached the Jade with a large hole in the port wing where a shell had gone through and, turning south, came down to 50 feet over the Jade Basin to make certain of locating target.
their
"Within a few minutes we scem- jed to be the target for every anti- aircraft battery in North-West Germany," the report continued.
'Plane Peppered
"A shell went through our star- board wing and another, which caught us close to the starboard engine, dented the starboard air- crew and peppered the fuselage with splinters.
"The tall wheel and both our rudders were hit, and the navi- gator w's struck with shell splinters, which lodged in his clothing."
The captain, with great diffi- culty, succeeded in climbing to called up his rear gunner, and, just over a thousand feet. He'
port No ammunition left? Be- tween them; the two rear gunners had peppered military ground tar- gets with thousands of rounds of
operator to investigate.
The operator came back to re-
Ulster and Eire Governments over the twin problems getting no reply, sent his wireless of neutrality and defence, the Prime Minister may step in and invite Lord Craigavon and Mr. de Valera to a round-table conference in London.
Service chiefs are gravely concerned over the continuance of the dispute between the two Irish
machine-gun fire.
Premiers. Until they compose their differences all SAILORS
matters relating to the defence of Ireland as a whole
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Plans for the protection of
be
Northern Ireland are, naturally SO DISGUSTED HE
secret, but it stated that nothing has been left to chance.
Eire is the weak spot. No one doubts the sincerity of Mr. de Valera's determination to defend Eire against enemy attacks
but
+
JOINED THE ARMY
ADRIFT FOR SIX DAYS
engineers,
Two Scots marine James Thomas, of Linlithgow, and
The chief recruiting officer at James Hopkins, of Bathgate, West there are grave fears about his Leeds Naval Recruiting Office was Lothian, have arrived home after ability to do so.
at Leeds sentenced to four months'ia trying ordeal at sea. Their ship imprisonment and fined £50 for was lost through enemy action. corruptly attempting to obtain £3 from a man by saying he could of a British vessel, who took to They were among 23 survivors get him into the Navy,
The only lifeboat, were six days, The officer was Frederick on the water before being picked Arthur Rackham.
up by a trawler, lived on ship's biscuits and three spoonfuls of
I.R.A. 'Gauleiter”? -Faced with these problems, Mr. Churchill may take the initiative and request the two leaders — so alike, yet so different, in the passionate belief they have in Mr. T. A L. Stephenson, the water each man per day. their cause-to thrash out their recruit, stated that he was so dis-. dispute with him.
The survivors were exhausted. gusted that he went out and join-[when rescued and taken to a Meantime, it is reported from ed the Army, reliable, quarters abroad,
south-west port. that
Sean Russell, the former chief] of the "I.R.A." General Staff, who is now living in: Berlin, is plan ning to become Hitler's "gaulel ter" in Ireland..
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Berlin is trying to enlist the sympathies of Russell's sup porters in Eire to form a Fifth Column. Main object provent, an agreement between Eire and Ulster for a united front against a German Inva- slon.
These efforts are meeting with little success, for the moderate elements among the Republican movement reject the argument that Eire would be better off, politically, and economically, un der Nazi "protection". than she
is now as an independent. State within the British. Common- wealth
THE WORST BEGGAR IN THE WORLD' Alfred Frederick Marks, whe was sentenced at Marlborough Street Police Court to 28 days' imprisonment for wandering in the West End to beg or gather alms, told the Magistrate
must be the worst beggar in the world, for I still haven't
penny to my name."!
He had; t'fact, thred farthings.
a
Diana Lowla, now known as Men, William Powell, relaxOB
at the enge of her swimming pool.""
Miss Lowis, who displays
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