1941-05-13 — Page 5

By BUD FISHER

YOU GET SUCH A PAIN IN

YOUR FOOT YOU FORGET ABOUT THE PAIN IN

YOUR HEAD!

FIREMEN COBBLE FOR BOMBED-OUT

(By A Special Correspondent)

YOU CANT KEEP these London Fire Service boys down. They've started mending shoes now -- in their spare time.

Regularly every week, about ed from their homes

I Big shoes, little shoes, men's, eighty of them spend a couple of

children's, it doesn't hours making old boots and shoes women's,

They all come alike to serviceable again for people bomb-matter.

these firemen cobblers.

WOMAN DETECTIVE

MARRIES

woman

Miss Katharine Sanderson. young

detective. whom members of the Special Branch at Scotland Yard described as bri- Hant, was married at the Scottish National Church, Crow by court, Covent Garden, to Pe Alexander Mackay, of Strathpeffer

And it's no botched-up job they turn out, either. Every one of the men has been tramed by Mr. John H. Wallis, LCC instructor at Bermondsey Men's Institute.

in

It all started when Mr. A. E. HII, head of the Institute, aug. gested giving the Mayor of Bermondsey a helping hand with the old boots and shoes sent to him for the relief of distress among blitzed families.

"Show Us How"

He asked the firemen quartered underneath the a sub-station

would like to Institute if they help.

When du we start?" they

Miss Sanderson, whe comes from Che hire, was attached to the Special Branch when the IRA. outrages began in Britain. "Sure we will. Show us how She frailed two of the lenders and] to do it. was one of the women detectives) chorused referred to as "Miss A" and "Misa B during the trial at the Old Bailey.

When the war began she car

secret ried out many important

inquiries for the Yard She re- signed her position in view of her marriage.

Now

Mr Wallis showed them between forty and eighty pairs of boots and shoes a week are made serviceable by the men.

repairs are Materials for the

the Mayor's air- pied for from pad relief fund.

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AMERICAN STEAMER SEIZED

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

The Japanese mili- tary in Shanghai yes- terday

seized on American owned coastal steamer, the Estelle, while the crew were unloading о cargo of cotton carri- ed through the Japan- ese blockade.

The U.S. consulate is expected to protest to Tokyo.-Interno- tional News Service.

SOVIET PRAISE FOR STALIN

"Pravda," commenting on the second anniversary of the 18th party congress, declares that the past two years has brilliantly con- firmed the rightness of the policy abroad and at home, approved then and since under applied Stalin's leadership.

It was then Stalin made his last on policy. great pronouncement Recalling that speech, "Pravda" writes: "The main expectations of warmongers were bullt on getting Russia into the war, forcing her to fight in the interests of Anglo- French capitalists.

"Comrade Stalin divined this plot of imperialists, and stressed aim of foreign as the one main policy to be careful not to let our country be involved in conflicts by provocateurs who are accustomed to using catspaws.'

Stalin's policy, "Pravda" points out, not only succeeded in guaran- of the Soviet teeing the safety

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CHILD BORN IN SHELTER

A woman had her fifteenth child, which was born in a shelter, and was provided with a layette sent by the American Red Cross, states a report of the Women's Voluntary Services.

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