1941-06-07 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 7, 1941. MUTT AND JEFF

JEFFAT LOOKS LIKE WEVE MADE GOOD! THE BOSS HAS CANNED ALL' THE ROOKIES EXCEPT US! JUST THINK WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A BIG-LEAGUE BALL PLAYER!

/ IT MEANS LIVING AT THE BEST HOTELS! WHEN WE'RE ON THE

ROAD WE'LL TRAVEL IN LUXURIOUS PULLMANS!

HERE,

GENTS!

FINE!

4-22

BAT BOY

Library, Supreme Coat

IT'S FROM THE BOSS! HE SAYS WE'RE FIRED!

NOW HOW ARE WE GONNA GET BACK HOME.

Bv BUD FISHER

WHAT WERE WHY SQUAWK? YOU SAYING. YOURE ON A

ABOUT

WERE BROKER LUXURIOUS

PULLMAN AIN'T PULLMANS? You?

15, IS G.P.O. HANGING IS

FIRE HERO

Only when a Home; ter. When the call came for Guard threatened to club volunteers to save valuable ap- him with his rifle did para us and records. Tommy, aged 152, was first up the stairs to the young Tommy Nuttall,

top storey. West of England tele-

With him graph 'messenger, stop

went his pal Frank Hugo, who twice got into diffleul- kicking incendiaries off the blazing roof of a blitz-ties and was each time saved by ed post office.

Grumbling and disappointed, he obeyed orders and went to shel-

DANCE PARTY IN CRASH-3 KILLED

Three

women

were

killed

- when

a lorry taking home 31 party from à dance came into collision with another vehicle near Virginia Water. Surrey.

They were Mrs. G. Goldsmith, thirty-five. of Virginia Water: Miss P. M. Bridger, nineteen, u Egham, and Miss J. E. Smil, seventeen.

Tommy.

Frank, eighteen. was off duty when the raid started, and the post office where he worked caught fire,

Tunic Alight

He ran up

TOO DEAR

When

-For The Sheriff

an

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

ERROL

execution FLYNN

takes place in Britain it costs the High Sheriff £25.

This amount inclues the hang- man's fee, the provision of 11 hempen rope, and a fee to the Under-Sheriff to see the hangman does his duty properly,

This was revealed in the House of Commons recently when the Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked to relieve the High Sheriffs of these fees.

The Chancellor pointed out that the High Sheriff could recover his expenses from the Exchequer

with a limit of £10 for the Arst and £5 for each of the other prisoners who were hanged at the same time, a

a ladder with stirrup pump hose, put his head through the blazing frame of a trapdoor and, while Tommy pumped, fought the flames on the roof.

The water gave out and the burning ceiling collapsed on him and Tommy.

Frank crawled out. düzed, and with his unic alight. Tommy beat out the flames with his hands.

All through the night, with The party had attended a walls threatening to fall on them, dance organised by members of the boys went on with their the forces in return for other salvage. They saved valuable re- dances for the troops which cords and thousands of pounds Virginia Water had arranged. worth of apparatus.

OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

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HORIZONTAL

1 Confusion

4 Note of scale

6 To brag

11 Island in

Malay Archipelago

13 To go on

Board a vessel 15.Pronoun a

10 Tapestry

18 Silkworm

19 Boverage

21. Mythological --

Scandinavian

* "king" MAN 22-Noter of scale-

23 Delayed";

28 Seed container

ArConversation

31 Evil giant

33 Norse deity

'34 Arüficial".

language

35 Poisonou

| 56 South-African

-Dutch

56 Heron

60 Symbol för

tantalum

61 Repugnant

63 Liable. to

penalty

66 Slumbered 68 Printer's

measure

67 Dawn goddess

VERTICAL

1 To border

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2 Quantity of

medicine

3 Conjunction

4 Wild'

5 Chief artery

To beleaguer

7. Sacred Hindu

word

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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INDOOR ANDEERREKOR

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9 Moro high

priest

10 Prefix: three

12 Symbol for

sodium

14 Egyptian

astral body

17 Woman's

singing voice.

20 Arablan

garment 24 Eskimo

settlement

25 Arid 27 Egg-shaped 28 To refuse

29: Omnivorous

„ig, birdy

30 To sharpen

32 Weird

36 Dry

37 Obiection

Hindrance 44 Worm

To: fish by

183 Inlets

Be Toward

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In addition, the hangman's travelling expenses (third-class rail) could also be claimed.

The Chancellor added that he these allowances were insufficient. had not heard any suggestion that

Sheriffs of cities and towns, he said, were appointed by the local authorities, and their expenses not recoverable from the

were

Exchequer.

At the end of this passage about the hangman, Mr. Thorne asked the Chancellor if he was aware that the hangman had to have a rehearsal before he was engaged,

The Chancellor: That is another story.

GIVE UP CHOCS FOR BOMBED

For six months little Gill Halston has lain in hospital paralysed. And like most girls of seven, she longed for some cho- colates.

At home in Market Weighton, Yorks, her parents and nine- year-old sister Ents tried hard to get her some. They failed.

One day Enis had a surprise- a friend sent her a big box as a present. She took them at once to her sick sister.

Then the two little girls talked the matter over. They decided that chocolates were far too rare to eat, so they raffed the precious box.

Their Own Idea

Tickets were 2d. each, and they sold well over 300. They sent the money to the Lord Mayor of Hull's raid distress fund...

..

"It was all their own iden,” their mother told a reporter.

They said bombed ......people were,

than more important chocolates.

far

Councillor T. H. Smith, Hull's

| Lord Mayor, has written to, thank

Enis and her crippled · sister...for sacrificing their special treat.

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