1940-12-17 — Page 5

By BUD FISHER

MUTT, GET ME

A DOCTOR ANY DOCTOR: BUT DOCTOR·

BROWN!,

11-4

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DESERTED London Lists Raid

SHIP-FINE,

GAOL

A charge against two seamen brought under the Defence Regu- lations was heard in camera at Thames Police Court at the re- quest of Mr. Vincent Evans (for

Damage

QUEENS THEATRE

THE EMBASSIES of the United States, Spain, HONGKONG. DAILY AT 230-5-15-7·20-9:30 PM. TEL.31453 and Japan and the London headquarters of the Governments of Australia, South Africa and South- ern Rhodesia have been damaged in air raids, it was

the Director of Public Prosecu- disclosed in a list of places authorised for publica-

tions)

The court was reopened for the public to hear the magistrate's decision.

The men were Frederick George Almond, twenty-three, of 'Sandford Street, Birkenhead, and Henry Holmes, twenty-three, of Wood Street, Birkenhead, both trimmers, and they were charged with being absent from their ship, without leave.

Almond was fined £10 or one month, and Holines was sentenced to two months' hard labour,

€

two men

tion.

although

The list, which contained dozens, Street, Fulham; Great Ormond of famous buildings, streets, Street Hospital, Guildhall, where a squares and districts which have bomb fell nearby: Hogarthy's been announced as damaged from House of Lords. time to time, included such places Varying degrees of damage were as the Associated Press of Aineri-done to the Imperial War Museum, ca Building, Austin Reed, a men's Indian Students Hostel, Inner store, the Bank of England, where | Temple Library, Islington Parish ál bomb fell nearby, Berkeley Church, Italian Tourist Company. Square, Berwick Market, Berwick the Japanese Embassy, evacuated Street. Bond Street, Bourne and owing to

time bomb; Jewin Hollingsworth, a West End De- Chapel, John Lewis, another West partment store; the British Mu-End department store; Lambeth seum courtyard, Bruton Street, Palace. Lambeth Walk Market, Buckingham Palace, Burlington Law Courts, London Hospital, Arcade, Burlington Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's wax works, Burlington Home in Piccadilly, Maddox Street, Marylebone, May- The magistrate (Mr. John Continuing, the list disclosed fair, the New Statesman and Na- Harris) said: "You

damage to Carnaby Street. Char-tion Office, Oxford Street, Park have pleaded guilty to deserting terhouse Clinic, Chelsea, Christ's Lane. Peter Robinson's, # West your ship when she was in a Church at Westminster Bridge End department store, Piccadilly port ready to join convoy Road: Church of Our Lady of Vic- und Piccadilly Hotel, Port of Lon- bringing food to this country. tories, Kensington; County Hail don Authority Docks, Public Re-

Westminster: the "Daily Herald"cords Office. "You went ashore, having been office. District Headquarters 01 The authorised list, warned that the ship was due to the American Ambulance Unit at giving no details as to the extent sail, and although you returned to Tunbridge Wells, Kent; D. H. the ship later you lost the

of damage done, also recorded Evans, a West End department damage to Queen Mary's Hospital, voy, and the ship and the food in-store; Elephant and Castle district; Radnor House, Regent Street, Rol- tended for this country were de- Eltham Palace. "Evening Standard' ten Row, Royal Arcade, St. Augus- layed considerably."

office: Ford showroom at Regent tine Church at Watling Street; St. Clemens Church, in East Cheap; St. Dunstan's Headquarters. St. Dunstan's in the East, St. Giles at Cripplegate: St. John the Evan- Igelist at Smith Square; St. Magnus the Martyr, St. Margaret's at Westminster: St. Mary-at-the Hill, St. Mary Woolnoth St. Paul's Churchyard, St. Swithin's Church Street: St. Thomas' Hos- pital in Savile Row: Selfridge's well-known Oxford Street depart- ment store: Sloane House, Spanish Embassy, Belgrave Square, Statue of Richard Coeur de Lion at Old Palace: Swiss Relief Centre at Fitzroy Square; the Tate Gallery, Trinity College of Music. Univer- sity College Library, Wallace Col- lection Courtyard, Westminster Abbey, and Westminster Hall.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Earth

4 Sweetened

alcoholic

drink

9 Philippine

savage

12 To be

obliged to

13. Rapidly

14 Genus: of cattle.

15 Utter con-

tentment,

17 Ancient

Egyptian

monarch

19 Large.

heavy um

brella

21 South Ameri-

can tuber..

22 Basketid

25 To alter.

29 Printer's

measure

30 To scoff

32 Swift Malaje

⚫dian vessel

33. Mineral

35 Prophet

27 Atmosphere

30 Turkish

regiment

40 To shoot

from cover 42,8ymbol for

selenium

43 Looks/

amorously

45 Breathed

violently

VERTICAL

1 Convulsive

sigh

47 Lofty

Imountain

49 Certain

50 Feast

54 Russian

rulers

87 Eggs 58 Fruit

60 French coin

61 To plead

62 Withered 63 Female

sheep

2 Wise bird

3 Tu con-

descend

4 Ornamental

plant

5 Above & Drink

tion :

7 Reverbera-

8 Tranquility.

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YESTERDAY'S ́SOLUTTION,

BIRID AUGADE AN OCIA ROUSE SUBLINES

MBALI

SILAFESTAS;

CARADEZANTO

Sleeveless garment

10 Also

11 Tree

16 Without

18 Sloping walk

20 Pares 22 Corolla leaf 23* Feeble

minded

24 Checks 20 Period of

time

27 Clamour

28 Ventured

31 Showers

34: Scotch for··

"no

30 Issued

Coplously. 39 Mesopo

tomia

1 Ya, mistaken 44 Strips of

typćinetal

48 Tomoy 46 French Kipriest.

Bonta cut short

To scold

53-Sticky

substance 56 Spat - #56. To patition

59. Hebrew letter

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[A news photograph taken re- rently in London disclosed that the office of "The Times" sustained damage in a recent raid which left a hole in the front of the building and blew out all of the windows.]

HARD LABOUR FOR LOOTER

1

A man who stole a child's dressing-gown from a house which had been wrecked by a bomb dur- ing an air raid was sentenced, to one month's hard labour at south of England: police court,

The man, Lewis Hopgood, aged forty-one,

was stated to have picked up the dressing-gown from a pile of clothing salvaged by the

owner.

A police superintendent pointed out that anyone who stole articles left exposed or unprotected by war operations was liable to death or penal servitude for life,

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