1941-06-23 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 23, 1941

MUTT AND JEFF

MUSIC SCHOOL LEARN HOW TO PLAY IN TEN EASY LESSONS

OH,BOY, NOW I CAN PLAY "THE FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE!"

HEY, BUDDY! WANNA HEAR ME PLAY "THE FLIGHT"

FELEVATO

OF THE BUMBLEBEE?"

NO NOISE ALLOWED IN THIS BUILDING SIR

OFFICER, WANT ME TO PLAY THE

FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLE-) *BEE "FORYA?

NO, I DON'T!

Cbrary, Cipres

C

·LISTEN, YOU! I'M HOLDING UP TRAFFIC SO YOU CAN CROSS THE STREET ARE YOU GONNA CROSS.OR

AIN'T CHA?

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AIN'T!

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By BUD FISHER

YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN TO ME PLAY "THE FLIGHT OF

THE BUMBLEBEE** SO WHY SHOULD I CROSS YOUR OLD STREET?

SOMETIMES. WONDER WHY I WANTED TO BE A COP!

THEY FARM SHARING

IN SCARS OF £150,000 BATTLE

Twenty workers of a City office are to share in Another I spring has £150,000 left by the found- come to France, and the er of the firm, Mr. Charles farmers are ploughing Harold Reich, of Wick and harrowing their Hall, Hove, Sussex. peaceful fields amid all the grim signs of the war that swept down on them last June.

Tanks r.ddled with bullet holes Jane the approaches to several towns, writes an Associated Press emrespondent who has made a to the Channel trip from Paris coast.

My trip took in Gournay, Rouen, Dieppe, St. Valery-en Caux, Le Havre and many villages.

Bridge On Barges

Rouen

damaged. is scarcely Bridges over the Seine were blown up by the French, bull substitute spans have been laid over barges.

SHOPPING TIME FOR WORKWOMEN

[BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT]

Women factory work- ers will have time for shopping and leave when their husbands come home from the Forces if employers adopt sugges- tions in the new Ministry "The division is left to the of Labour pamphlet.

Mr. Reich, who died in Novem- her, leaving £ 158.178 leit £3,000 to his wife and the residue to her for life and then among the employees, excluding directors, of the Ocean Oil Co.

manager

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discretion of the directors," Mr. Ernest E. Mees, acting general of the firm. said, "There are twenty of Usi Our one woman worker, Mrs. Tucker, has been with us for twenty- two years, The newest ber of the staff eleven years.

mem.

"Our staff is composed of clerks and salesmen.

"Mr. Reich had no children."

The pamphlet stresses that industry must be newcomers to made welcome.

"The paramount consideration,” it says, "is to make it as easy as possible for women to enter the factories.

Children Too

It suggests that the hours of working should allow women to get children off to school Ka

Along roads and railways and there are still many French hel-nursery. at the edge of many copses are mets along the roads or in piles graves, single or in pairs, some with car bumpers and wheels and

German.

French. Bome

some twisted tank armour. English. Around each the Ger

have erected a white

mans

"In particular," It adds, "the

of hours must permit

each woman having reasonable time to do her shopping.

"In the absence of such an bad time-keeping. absenteeismn and discontent are likely to result."

Near the coast I saw evidence fence, and marked the grave by of a continuing war-the wrecks and bombers hanging a helmet on a cross. of fighter planes Although the western front some burned, some upside down | arrangement, campaign ended ten months ago where they crashed.

OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

A labour manager at a big London factory told me how in- portant shopping time is to factory

women,

hours

are

when

specially

they finish

arranged, factory women find the

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PROMPTLY ON TIME!

BOOKING AT: WHITEAWAY'S

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SATURDAY'S SOLUTION

BATELIRAMA

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Two girl wardens who had worked four days the without rest since London blitz rescuing neighbours trapped in basements, took their first hour off-to have a sham- poo and set.

Carol Parsons; e'ghteen, and her sister, Gladys, twenty-six, manne- wardens at quin are part-time

a West End post.

"We must have a bath and

a hair-do." Carol said as she tried to comb kar tangled curia, "Then we can think about some slcop."

Hair waved and faces made- up, Carol and Gladys were trans- formed into slick business girls.

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