1940-10-31 — Page 5

By BUD FISHER

-BUT

I'M

NOT!

"BROKER'S

CLAIM

DISMISSED

JUDGMENT WITH COSTS WAS GIVEN TO N, F. C. LON- BORG, OF THE MUTUAL TRADING COMPANY, BY MR. E. H. WILLIAMS AT THE SUPREME COURT, IN THE ACTION BROUGHT BY MR. FRANK W. WHITE, GENERAL BROKER, FOR $300, COMMIS- SION ON BUSINESS INTRO- DUCED.

In the previous hearing, plain- tiff said that he introduced three clients. There was no written agreement that he would be paid 25 per cent. but it was orally agreed. In August, he was given a letter which agreed on commis- sion to be paid on future business..

Plaintiff claimed for commission on business prior to that.

THE EMPIRE'S AIR SCHEME FAR

AHEAD OF SCHEDULE

THE EMPIRE AIR training scheme, designed to produce 20,000 pilots and 30,000 air crews annually when in full operation, is already months ahead of schedule, declared Lord Cranborne, Dominions Se- cretary, speaking in London yesterday.

Canada and Australia, he said, each had 300,000 men trained or training, while Canadian destroyers, cooperating with the British Navy and Australian Navy in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, were doing magnificent work.

He added: "In the Middle East, forces from South Africa, as well as from Southern Rhodesia and other parts of Africa stand along- side our own troops to defeat the

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Elsewhere in the Australians and New Zealanders are massing, while thousands of Canadians here in Britain eager

deal faithfully to Hitler's invasion.",

are with

"In the storm new shaking the foundations of the world, the British Empire stands like a rock against which the winds and waves break without weakening its essential strength.” --- Reuter.

Shocking Example

A tribute of grateful thanks to daughter nations and the Com- monwealth' was paid_by_the_Do- minions, Secretary, Lord. Cran- borne, contrasted the old type of empire, a shocking example of which was, he said, exhibited by monwealth been more importhe Third Reich, with the new tant than to-day." declared Lord type as represented by the Bri- Cranborne,

tish Commonwealth of Nations.

"Never has the British Com

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linen

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garment

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10 Fate

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ruin

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paired

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letler G Emphasis 7 Torúin

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a ghost.

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rootstock 10 Like

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20 King of Crète -22-To-enjoy

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23 Girl's name

25 Land

measure

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26 Troubled 120 To diminish

30 Pilcher 34 Disentangled 36 Japanese art

~of self.... defence 37: Son of

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Whereas the Nazis were hold- ing down Poland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Demark, Holland and Belgium by force, Britain was receiving magnificent and freely offered help from the Dominions. Against the Italian foe, soldiers from South Africa, Rhodesia,

· Australia and New Zealand ‚were.

com- massing alongside British rades.

Because they were not found- ed on a solid basis of goodwill, such empires as the Greater Reich could not last.

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Other great nationis have crumbled into ruins. The Bri- tish Commonwealth remains un-

the shaken and undismayed, serene guardians of civilisation which, without it, would already be a thing of the past,-British Wireless.

FOOTBALL FIELD THEFT

fined

Ip Kam-shing, 20, was $20 or one month, by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., this morning, for stealing a woollen sweater from D. Liang, of the Royal Corps of Signals, yesterday,

Accused was seen taking the sweater from near the goal-posts

St. Joseph's football' on the ground, while Liang was playing football...

Det.-Sergt. J. Bentley prosecut-

ed.

SWINDLE IN BANK

Chan' Tal-ngor, a visitor to the Colony, has reported that he was swindled of $400 in guilder notes," by two Chinese inside the Char-: tered Bank yesterday...

STORE ROBBED

A store room at No. 21; Third Street, was entered yesterday and nails and other articles valued at $288 stolen. A quantity of sand- bags stolen from the same place belonged to the ARP. Depart- 'ment:

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"Never in our lifetime have eyes beheld its equal.” DAVID O. SELŻNICK'S

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GONE

WITH

The WIND

Starring

CLARK GABLE

LESLIE HOWARD OLIVIA de HAVIL

and presenting VIVIEN LEIGH

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THE YEAR'S GAYEST COMEDY HIT!

The hilariously romantic carrying on of a husband who goes whistling under the wrong balcony (his secretary's!)/

but.not for long!- ery, very romantic

Qualy

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Romantic. Vervi and riotously gav

SUNDAY

RKO Rad "Platura

Tyrone

rlot-

Linda

POWER DARNELL

Day time Wife

WARREN WILLIAM BINNIE BARNES

WENDY BARRIE JOAN DAVIS

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