1940-12-16 — Page 20

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 16, 1940. .

MUIT AND JEFF

~WE GATHER THE NEWS SWIFTLY--YES, AS THE": YEARS ROLLED BY RADIO 'HAS TAKEN THE PLACE

OF THE NEWSPAPER

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HEY! YOU LITTLE FOOL! WHATARE

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By BUD FISHER

THE MAN SAID, ['RADIO HAS TAKEN THE PLACE OF

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HEY! YOU NEVER

USE TO HIT ME WITH A

NEWSPAPER!

THE NEWSPAPER-

I'M SWATTIN',

FLIES!

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13, SUPER WAR LOAN SALESMAN

Since thirteen-year-old Ronald Abbotts, of Wyche Avenue, King's Heath, Birmingham, organised his own war savings group 2 month ago and started a house- to-house campaign selling certi- ficates he has proved himself a super-salesman.

Now Alderman Sir Ernest Canning. J.P. chairman of Bir- mingham Savings Committee, has written to praise

his work and

Ronald may broadcast to the country how he makes people buy certificates.

Seventy-five per cent of the residents in Wyche Avenue are buying War Savings Certificates, and Ronald is now canvassing other roads.

While drawing his own pos ters.

which

has designad he outside his house.

and posted

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MARRIED UNDER AN HIS CAB

BERT GOT

ARMED GUARD

An interned Austrian has been married with an armed escort at his side had a two-hour honey- moon and went back to an intern. ment camp.

He was Dr. George Zak, a twenty-six-year-old Austrian re-

THROUGH

lugee, who was married at Hampstead Register Office to Miss Ilse Sachs, aged twenty-six, German subject, of Adamson have Road, Hampstead.

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There was a small private wed- ding breakfast at a friend's home. A friend told ย reporter

"Dr. Zak and his bride first met in Vienna, where she was a stu- dent in his hospital. They have been engaged for some time."

he told a reporter:-

Sunday Best Day

I have

my own method of selling certificates I had to do something in the war but WRS too young to

serve most of the bodies taking volunteers,

"My father is my guarantor, and I do all the collecting and keep all the money and my own books. Sunday morning is the time to find people in That is when I do my big business.

"During the day all the wives say that their husbands look after the money, so I have to go back at night and talk the men into it.

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may broadcast about by work. I have already had voice test for the microphone."

OUR 10-MINUTE crosS-WORD

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HORIZONTAL

1 Couch

4 Ancient

country in

3. Asia

9 Ember

12 Peruvian

tuber'

13 To excite to

vigorous

action

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14 New Zealand

kiwi

13 Exalted

17 To obscure.

19 Island

20 Edible

mollusk

21 Sacred

Buddhistic

language

23 Unmarried

person

27 Indident

29 Path.

30 Bymbal for

oleuin

31 Conducted

32 Warchouso

34 Hebrew

Jetter

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delly

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a liquid

...suddenly

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prank

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learning

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cise of a right

44 Standard

16 Types

48 Ministers

51 To trouble

02.Banal

64 Man's name

VERTICAL

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gently

4 Seed

covering

5 Ludicrous

$5 To use with

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diligence

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HARON ETREREN

FRCLZARNE

DAZDA BY BUT NO

OD BALINZQUEN BEGŹNADIRŽBOE

INDAWN FIGUAZORİ

CHAAR RENADA

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9 Scent

10 French coin

11 Owned

16 Reposed

18 Sorceress

queen

20' To applaud

21 Volcano in

. Martinique

22 Says

24 African

"antelope 25 Ta drink....in -honour of 26-Dwarfs 20 Storms 33 To rend 34 Disturbance 38 Kun' for

drying hops 38 Rowing

Implements

40 Tonding to

spiral

41 Growing out 43 Crude

-'metals

40 Colloquial: dunco..

47 To lubricate 48 Cavity 49 Beaton for

50 Nahoor

shoop 53 Sun god

(By A Correspondent)

Worthy of their fellows in other parts of the country where bombs fallen, London's A.R.P. workers have shown their true value during the recent air raids.

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After one of the most raising trips in my life tour's ride in a taxicab in South London during the height of the bombing I pay tribute to the unbelieveable courage of London's A.R.P. services and to Albert Hac- kett, a typical Cockney taxi-cub driver.

Hackett under fire was as as a cucumber.

cool

I chartered his cab in the West London?" I asked him. End. "Will you drive me to South

"Yus. 'Op in," he replied.

We made a detour to avoid the

Elephant and Castle. Suddenly we ran into heavy and incendiary bombs.

Men of the A.R.P. sprang on to the running boards of my kaxicab, which they comman. deered, and directed us to where the incendiarles had fallen.

The men, in teams of three, with a stirrup pump, attacked a bomb. Some were made harmless in less than a minute.

Cab Roof Goes

Hackett and I were allowed to operate a pump and we put out our fires in good time,

Then came further showers of 'Molotov breadbaskets.'

Ten minutes later, we had our narrowest escape. A plane 'skim- med the top of a barrage balloon and dropped a bomb so near that the roof of the cab was blown off and the cab rocked.

For the first time Hackett lot off steam in real Billingsgate. But after examining his cab ho went on driving as well as ever. I last saw him taking home a group of dazed bank clerks who had lain in a gutter with their arms over their heads when a high explosive bomb struck the road 25ft. away from them.

WAR IMPROVES

OUR COOKING

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Increasing air-raids have.. lessened the keenness of house- wives to improve thelp wartime cooking.

Already the campaign run by the Ministry of Eood and the Board of Education has reached hundreds of thousands of women.

Returns for example from ten county districts, show that over 100,000 women attended demon- strations in the smaller towns and villages in these districts.

This figure takes no account of the vast numbers reached by open days at schools, food education weeks, housewives' clubs, broad- casts, films, advertisements and pamphlets.

The

poor have been reached, Selected homes are visited whore, neighbours collect to watch demonstrations and dis- cuss problems.

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