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It can be used on either A.C. or D.C. circuits.

Obtainable at-

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Recapturing

the thrills of the Spanish Main!

"The Sea Hawk

wish

Brenda MARSHALL

Claude RAINS Donald CRISP. Flora ROBSON Alen HALS

Directed by MICHAEL CURTIZ · A WARNER BROS.-First National Picture Screen, Play by Howard Koch and Seton L. Milise • Music by Brich Wolfgang Korngeld

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GIRLS LEAD NIGHT LIFE

IN SHELTERS

(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT);

GANGS OF GIRLS WHO SPEND THEIR

IT'S AUTOMATIC:

NIGHTS WITH UNDESIRABLE MEN IN PUBLIC USA.

AIR-RAID SHELTERS ARE CREATING NEW PRO- BLEMS FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND SOCIAL WORKERS. ONE GANG, KNOWN AS THE "SHELTER GIRLS," HAS BECOME SUCH A NUI-

MAKES NEW BOMB

SANCE IN LIVERPOOL THAT WOMEN MAGIS RELEASE

TRATES AND SOCIAL WORKERS HAVE URGED THE CITY'S WAR EMERGENCY COUNCIL TO ACTION.

its

An automatic bomb re- lease, which enables the An education official told the Juvenile Court bomber to space each ex- there that the girls were between fourteen and nine-plosive at a pre-determin-

ed distance from teen years old, lived at home as little as possible, were generally in the company of undesirable men. neighbour, has been per- and used the shelters as bedrooms.

When I toured shelters during; night rands I found social workers making a similar tour.

Miss and

One of them. Alderuan Mabel Fletcher, magistrate chairman of the Schoolchildren's Care and Attendance Committee, said: "Welfare workers and WO- magni- men's patrols are doing ficent work, but there are nearly enough of them.

Some From Good Homes

"They keep careful

check

not

of

be

girls reported by parents to out of control. They spend hours

fected in the laboratories of an important U.S.A

ing to American air cir-

MARLENE IS aircraft factory, accord- NO LONGER

TOPS FOR LEG APPEAL

Away from the blast, the bombs and the blitz--|

eles.

The device would allow # string of bombs to be dropped at regular intervals on the line along which a ship is travelling.

ac-

If the first bomb falls curately on the line, aft of the ship, ono ог more of the rest la bound to score a direct hit. If the first bomb is off the line the bomb-almer can stop the de-

to sunny Hollywood and vice and try again, or the pilot

at night searching for the girls Miss Marlene Dietrich's can adjust his course to improve and persuading them to go home.

"The war has relieved these legs.

the aim.

Out Of Range

The bomber could fly at a ter-

well out of reach of anti-aircraft

Similar tactics could be used against a factory or other vital target.

For years, the owner of that girls of personal responsibility.

of extremities Many from respectable homes magnificent pair are proving as difficult as others. has topped ballots for No. 1 leg rific height, visibility: permitting,

"They make the ralds an appeal. excuse not to go home, and She tops it no longer. In a fire. spend nights here dancing, sing world where such competitions ing and keeping awake those still make headlines, Miss, Betty who have come to sleep."

Grable is the new title holder. Conduct in some of the big shel- Has just been voted so, after a

A bomber aiding a military ad- ters is such that respectable peo- nation-wide screen poll tuken hy

vance could likewise decimate a the Screen Dancers' Guild.

moving column ple dare not enter.

of transport, Even while I was talking to There are, of course, runners- Alderman Fletcher a drunk stum-up Alice Fuy, Eleanor Powell, tanks, or men.

Little can be told about the da- Jorn Crawford, Hedy.

Connected with the air- vice. bled over a sleeping child; a fac- Zorina,

Ann Sheridan. Lana

is a dial with tory girl was complaining that her Lamarr,

Turner, Sonja Henie, Brenda speed indicator bedding had been stolen; and 3

But Miss Grable's in, which the release can be set to

I Joyce. grab was made at my handbag,

and 13in.

drop the bombs at measured but ankles

calves and further unpleasant indignities

slow intervals if the bomber is home first. were attempted.

'flying slowly; if the machine is flying fast, then the dial can be set to speed up the unloading ofia chosen number af bombs.

Children Have A Racket

+

romp

how

Once the bomb-aimer sets the device, then, the bombs drop au-

In case you've forgotten the other half of the world lives, Miss let me remind you that Grable was, once the wife of ex Small children have a racket film-prodigy Jackie Coogan, that more popular than collecting they hogged columns of space in shrapnel. They ask men, chiefly the newspapers by separating, tomatically sailors, to give them a penny for coming together, separating has meanwhile been put out of

I action, two halfpennies. Invariably they again, and then divorcing. are given a penny and told to keep the halfpennies.

a

I saw one urchin carry fistful of coppers back to kis mother, and a detective told me that some of the kiddies make well over ❀† a week.

VICHY POLITICS

BROADCASTS FROM UNOC- CUPIED FRANCE HAVE AS YET MADE NO MENTION OF THE APPOINTMENT OF A CONSISTING

TRIUMVIRATE

OF ADMIRAL DARLAN, GEN- ERAL HUNTZIGER AND M. FLANDIN— TO RULE FRANCE UNDER MARSHAL PETAIN.

A German-comtrolled: Havas

- even if he himself

CAPTURED NAZI AIRMAN HAD TEA AND CRIED

in

TWO GERMAN AIRMEN who baled out when their Heinkel bomber was shot down at Hornchurch, Essex, were later taken prisoner by civilians. One was captured by James White, 63-year-old lodge- keeper at Belhurst Park, Aveley, and the other by despatch denies the appointment Walter Byford, a porter at South Ockendon station.

Byford found his man on the "I left my wife, who is 65,. platform when he opened the charge of him, while I went to station, locked, him in one of the telephone for the police." rooms, and, telephoned the police. Mrs. White said: "My husband Lodgekeeper J. White, an old brought the man in, laid him on soldier, was, returning from his the sofa and took away his re- morning rounds when he saw his volver and ammunition. I got German, an officer, dressed in him a cup of tea, and be imme- overalls, with, his feet wrapped in diately burst into tear strips of parachute.

of the triumvirate, but this, too, has not been broadcast: from Vichy. Reuter.

THEY CAN WELD

METAL TO GLASS

For years scientists and 'manu- facturers all over the world have sought a means of welding metal to glass. Now it is announced that a method has been perfected by British glass manufacturers at St. Helens, Lancashire.

An official of the firm, sald

"I was just going indoors," he told the "Dally Herald," when 1 met the man in the drive

and asked him where he was going

Foot Jammed:

"He replied "Taite my prison "The process has been made a er,' and Frealised he was a Car practical one by combining the man airman. I saw that he was use of specially toughened glass wounded in one leg and question, and aluminium, and overcoming ed him

GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD the technical difficulties of spray-

St. George's Building; Ice House Street,

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HONG KONG.

ing

"The process is also being used for soldering metal discs on bolts, on to glass, and it is possible to. stick glass to glasa, by the same 'process."

"Ouly A. Boy"

an

“My dog and cat..... mude. awful: durs of him, and, as he lay on the sale, crying ha, natted them both, so, that man dogs did not want to leave his when the police care to take hing away in un ambulanca...

"He was only a boy, just about 21, and he seemed so ashamed, of hikniselt and sotmed overwhelnapd "He had been wounded, by, s bause we treated him decantly.". splinter of anti-airocath SPRIE The bodies off two other airmen which had put his machina, aut ware, found in the debris of the of control. His fest gatį jammed bomber which killed, a young In the rudder bar and he had coupl

Mr. and Mrs. Hitch and to sale of his boots before he 'thefr four-year-old daughter, could bale out..

Joyce, in their, Anderson skester,