1941-01-24 — Page 49

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 24, 1941.

HE IS 'MAMA' TO

ARMY GIRLS

my

The question, "Where is wandering girl to-night?" need not worry the mothers of Britain's daughters in uniform.

Wherever they are travelling even if they are stranded for hours at railway station at any time of the day or night

there is always a trusty friend waiting to help them.

This friend is the Army's Rail- way Transport Officer. Every station has its R.T.0, known with

gratitude by thousands of girls of the A.T.S.. the W.A.A F., the W. R. N.S. and the N.A‚‚F.L., 199 well as soldiers.

They know that the R.T.O. lo the man to look for In case of any difficulty he is father and mother to them all. One R.TO. on a big north of England railway station told a re- parler...

"I've got some funny children to deal with. They lose their railway warrants and their money, miss trains, get into the wrong anes, and

Josc even themselves, "Often

they

arc

wandering

about with newhere to go unt

HOME HIT AS FIANCEE DARED FIRE

(By A Special Correspondent)

Time after time, a pretty blonde ran into a bed- rooni of a blazing hotel during an air raid, risking death to rescue the belongings of her airman fiance.

Not till the flames enveloped the floor and sec- tions of the roof were collapsing did Freda Ledster, aged twenty-three, give up.

Then, a

sky-blue great-coat slung over

her

she shoulders, went to the home she had pre- pared for her wedding in a fort- night's time.

to dust

MINISTRY'S RISKS WITH WAR JOBS

It was crumbled

Оп rained of the bombs one Coventry in the "worst-ever" raid had shattered it.

Throughout the week-end, when she was able to leave her work in a big factory. Miss Ledster scar- ched in the wreckage in the hope of salving some of the furniture.

son eone says: 'Go and see the R.TO. Sometimes they have no- thing to eat. and I have to pro-the news to her flying officer flance,

vide them with a meal on the sput and a snack for the journey.

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"The pirls look after them. celves better than the boys and give me a lot less trouble. They don't get wandering about much and miss their trains. "On this station we have spe- cial sleeping accommodation for women,"

EVACUEE 'CRASHED' HOLLYWOOD

She had not been able to break

He Avas awny 6381 operational

duties

"I could murder Hitler for this," she told a reporter "Every thing we had saved for and col. lected has gone. My trousseau, three suites of furniture, carpets, curtains everything.

Premonition

"Still it's no use crying over spilt milk. We have ourselves and that's the main thing. I hope we shall still be able to get married on the 30th--but I'm told the re- gister office has been wrecked tou

First of England's child evacuees to "crash" Hollywood and win a She said she was having a meal start on the road to stardom is at the hotel, at which her flance Roddy McDowall, raged twelve, stays, when the raid started. The who crossed the Atlantic, amid building next door was fired, and bombings, in the liner Scythia re- the flames quickly attacked the cently.

root of the hotel.

Roddy has been assigned a lead- ing rule of Huw Correct in the film version of the novel, "How Green Was My Valley."

His mother, Mrs. W. L. McDowall, caid

in sixteen films they arrived in

Roddy appeared in England, but Hollywood with

their money almost gone.

"My father stayed behind," said Roddy. "He runs a lorry, and he's got to move

the explosives for Government and get the Jerries out of the air. He'll do it, too."

"I raced upstairs to my fian. ce's bedroom," said Miss Ledster, he grabbed the new uniform

had had made for the wedding. his coat, and bundles of other things.

"All through that dreadful night. I had a premonition that our home had been wrecked."

Waving her hand over the mass of debris, she added: "You can see just how true it came."

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"WE HAVE GREAT DIFFI CULTY IN GETTING PERSON- MAN OUR EVER- NEL то GROWING ESTABLISHMENT, AND WE HAVE TO TAKE ONE OR TWO RISKS."

This statement was made at the Old Bailey by Mr. J. W. Ivimy,

in the principal

establishments of of the Ministry department Supply, when an assistant inspec- tor in the ordance division of the Ministry was sent to prison for nine months.

The scntenced man, Harris Alan Cuthbert Hodgson, thirty-nine, was accused of passing worthless cheques.

When Mr. Ivimy said that Hodgson had been appointed to a £700 a year post on July 11. the Rerorder (Sir Gerald Dodson) asked if the Ministry knew then that proceedings for the cheque offences had begun.

not.

Mr. Ivimy said they did Hodgson had been appointed atter being interviewed by two respon. sible officers,

Recorder's Advice

"You might make it your business," said the Recorder, who to inform the gentlemen "interviewed this man that if they

had taken up his Army refer ences they would have found at once that they were employ- ing a man who had already re- ceived a sentence for dishones- ty.

"It would have been simple to get his Army record, and that would have disclosed the whole situation and saved a scandal, You might inform these two gentlement to be a little more wide awake in the public inter- est.

"

Mr. Ivimy added that, Hodgson began duty on July 12. The two interviewing officers obtained high- ly satisfactory personal references, but they did not discover that he had been sentenced in India for dishonesty.

An officer with such technical experience as Hodgson had was very valuable to the Ministry, and they had no hesitation in appoint- ing him.

On November 13 he was given notice terminating his appoint. ment because of "the unsatis- factory nature of his service;" which included his efficiency,' the fact that he had absented himself without leave, and car- tain money affairs in the ins. pectional department.

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The mentally sketchy girl- friend thinks when her beau says someone la a good mixer he means that someone le cap- able of stirring a good

up cake.

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Chrobras Kuala Lumpor Sourabaya Wadrife Flass Kuoking Canton Cawppora..... Cebu Colombo Mr. Ivimy said Hodgson's em- *Delhi ployment was terminated as from Unipldun October 12.

The Recorder: It fa aétonish- ing that the Ministry, with all sita resources, did not know that he had been committed.TAY trial on July 12 and that no body Informed them, I hope We can rast kosured that hEWIH receive no more public, manly either 2700 or 700 pence, Mr. Ivimy: That is so, For the defence it was stated that Hodaron was on the way to leading an honest lifa after his "slip”-in India. Olny £30 was involved, He had been suffering from neurosis.

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