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I Was Shaving"

London, Feb. 13.

The light went cut while I was shaving this morning.

Shaving--well" you can do that: by feel.

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By PHILIP AULT

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I

ing or when it'll be here." May- Ibe a half hour - maybe sooner"

The village tobacconist thought; │ned" Jast out the week but

sald London shop after shop for "Cigarettes

only- regulars and perishing, few for them."

These folk still were eating. There was focd-yet-but cook.

who

up her dressing gown trying to 'n gas fire But follow-correspondent Fahs Ret warn before wife nowshe has a two-month whose pressure is so low there

and baby fold

nothing but is only a flame no hest. electric

heating. The warmed milk is In the therm

ing was the problem. If gas is Bruce Munn has

strong enough your wife is lucky. little 3

locking for Otherwise she manages her cook- ow. He did not have any last Cliff Day went week. The hirses had flu, the candles in it shops. He did noting to skirt the five hours there man said.

find any and today Me Day is isn't any current. Many reverted rela- to the habits of their ancestors These weren't Britain's little sending SOS messages to

HIME people. These were Aunericuntives for some to light their flat and did morning toast speared Mr. Justice Williams desition Journalists looked upon by the during the five hours of the day on a fork ever a gos, fire or in

no juice

the fireplace. in the Apliu Street tenancy alive. in "luxury" fals

British as privileged because they when there is

Dowson was late this How many thousands dead? peal may be good law, but if it even have central, heating and morning. He had been to seven Nobody has died except some

the six RAF. men seeking butts like is the law, then the law should paid anything from U.S.$150 a cigarette shops

without which no sports writer crashed their plant trying to get he changed. Nothing, surely, month up for them.

work.

snowbound village. food to a strikes so sharple ross the times it is grim. But always it is dents Barber, Thrapp and Buck direct result of the cold.

Sometimes it is funny-some can_

Other United Press..correspon-Few

were likely to die as 1 eral principles of English justice

But this thas a direction that what is fairlarists and never is it comfar-

ingham were lucky. They share and reasonable. is of no con- Munn looks like a miner crala steam heated luxury flat and beaten Germany. This was Lon- sequence as long as legal conditions attached to a litigant's "I want are fulfilled. 1 this particular case, the owner of the premises sought eviction of the tenant un the ground that they were re- quired for the accommodation of; "a son or daughter over 18." The Tenancy Tribunal found that re- I fusal of the application would;

the ap- impose no hardship on

iable.

ng into a ecal bin to scrape the or for enough to get the fire place going. His missus wet logs in a gas even and tries to mould coal dust into bumable bricks,

Mrs Higginbotham

last-the

one that can take

broken,

it

wns not had floods of hot water. They don. This was Britain-one of invited their friends to use their the countries that won the war bathtub at will. That was bakes

week. Today they showed up at United Press. work ill-shaven and shivering from cold. There was no coal for their 100-flat bleck,"

Robert Musel was the luckiest

buttoned

if all he went home to the URANGOON

ed States.

Teltype operator Creden Who's Who

plicant, with the obvious implica- Originator

tion of the very reverse effect

the tenant and his sub- Dead

renatis Mr. Justice Williams ruled that the Tribunal was rong in taking relative hardship and that the ind consideration, owner's mere demand for vacant|- pestession, as long as the evidence satisfied the conditions of Article;

1 (A) 3) of the Landlord and Tenant Proclama! rin. was imperative, leaving the Tribunal with no aprion but to make the order for eviction. "However unreasonable it may

The... if the tenant is dangerously ill and the removal might cause death, the Tribunal must grant the eviction under. To achieve this somewhat astonishing find- ing. Mr. Justice Williams insists that the operative ward in the Proclamation which deerees that the Tribunal "may" make the order

be interpreted as

must

RANGOON BANK STRIKE

stit could

nct get his house above 50 degrees in the front roonk Operator Winch was in trouble with the school authorities. They

Rangoun Feb. 13. said they

would take action. if Strikers carrying Anti- hik

get youngster did not

to Fascist "Peuples" Freedom school on line. But Mr. Winch League fags today picketed said it took her three quarters Rangoon banks as about 2,000

The

Brighton, Feb. 1. The man who first compiled an hour to heat the water for bank clerks joined strike-bound

child's. morning paridge. "Who's Who" in its 'present Geoff Lamb-he lives down labourers and commercial firms' form, Dr. Douglas Sladen, the street from Higent home employees. estimated at. 40,000. avtlist. biographer. poet, the gi:k in his plastic plant. traveller and sportsman, died at They couldn't use their

love last night, a week after for the cold. his 1st birthday.

The idea for a modern "Who's Whe" came to him at the end of the last century when travel- ling in the United States, an seeing personal paragraphs about people in the press.

In 1897, "Who's Who" was merely a Court list, but when Slades became editor, he intro- tured compart "little biogra- phies with such intimate de- tails as "favourite recreation."

Reuter.

chall." It matters not, of course Clashes In

whether the worthy Pvisne Judge!

Punjab

is right or wrong. There is an of fence against common-logie and good sense. Mr. Justice Williams...

Lahore, Feb. 13. did, in fact, go so far out of his

Spears, hatchets, staves and way to emphasise the extremes to Let gas were among the wea- which literal interpretation of the pons used today in clashes in Proclamation could be carried | Punjab between the police and

Railways Helpful

Early this afternoon all basks hands in the city' shut their doors,

displaying a votice that the day had been declared a bank holi- day.

The Burma Police Union is olding conference tomorrow;

decide its policy towards the strike.-Reuter..

A guard at the suburban stati:n gave up.

"The next train?" he said. "It's just

the next one that

to comes along. Don't know where it's go

Mr. Sillence Makes Allowances

London's

"little people." whose bulldog tenneity rode out the Nazi blitz, believe they are "getting it in the neck" new worse than during the war.

By Dick Turner

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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities"

UNSAFE SUITS

UNWISE

West led the club K which the spade 6 ruffed- A diamond drove" at the A. and the club Q forerd South's second trump. New South scored the spade A and X and the diamond Q. then laid down the spede Qin the hope that an vider business man to trumps were evenly divided. They younger one who had asked what were not. The probable division of eniary he should request on a job al had a trump left. The dia

on a job four and two existed. So East h. was seeking. It is the same still

"NOBODY WILL ever place a higher value on you than you put on yoursit was the advice given

with a bridge player. The pro- mond J drove it out, but East pective declarer who fears that, thereupon kd a third ehh round. five-old in minor might be too so West could take three more hard to make, even though the tricks in that suit. That made a minor is patently the correct suit total of five tricks for the defence. and prefers to essay game in four and set the contract two.

lead of odd of a major when it is clearly At G-Diamonds, with a an unsound trump suit, deserves the élub K. South would have Whatever misfortune befalls hin. been in. clever. In fact, his con- tract would have been "ee cold." and be could have made an extra trick for an unbid small slain if he guessed West for the heart. Q The only trick the defence would have been sure to score was witp the diamond A.

almighty dollar and the cam- y's suffering for it now." Silence, his wife and two! grown daughters were luckler sa z than most Britons, for the graying watchman who clear-HQ54 They disagree, however, ly remembers the winter of LA 63 about where the blame lies and 1896 es the eldest he has seem what the remedy is accordinglled his cellar

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United Press survey to-merse with coal daring

Charles Sillence, a 58-year- He said he practised

against a lukewarm

(Dealer! steam failed to practise itself. Conse radiator in his office in a Lon-quently, he manages to main- vulnerable). don building and expounded tain a coal fire in one, mom.. What would you consider th two main theories?

In all, Sillence believes that soundest bidding of this deal?

South West North The first-the

other Bri- Guvernment he and 40,000,000

1D-2C Pass should have sacrificed its all-outs are taking it in the neck export drive for three months now for worse than they did last summer to enable sufficient during the war.

He griped because he could bunkering at power stations to

ct get a lot of rum when he carry through the winter.

The second-the Fuel Minis-wanted it and because only this ter, Mr. Emanuel Shipwell, morning he had to call at six lacked foresight,

Jobacconists before he could "I think we've overdone the buy cigaretics. export business," Sillence said. "But i an ke a lot,"hree cards to an honour in the nerable). "We used up too much coal to explained. We all get peered spades. But what happened to hi What would you consider re

turn

out

articles

the

for the when shortages cut out

things

I we want

blame Shinwell for not seeing to it that fuel supplies were

murci than ample even though he had j every indication this was going to be a sugh winter. How- ever, if things righted them-

Writing The Peace

is

the second he was okay far the job."

it came Jack Gorman, 41-year-old

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And, believe it or not, North passed that, instead of showing C 85 his preference for diamonds, by j going to 5-Diamonds.. His excuse, after the hand was over, was that he thought 10 tricks might easier to make in spades than 1194 trickin diamonds, since he had

partner was a caution.

SAK 9 HK Q DAK Q.7 CQJ

(Dealer: East; East-West vul-

soundest bidding of this deal?

H.K.'s Ex-Gunners Getting Together

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have been to paint the urgent need ting against the Punjab Gov. for remedy. The history of the cinment Public Safety Ordin- Landlord and Tenant Preclama-aure forbidding processions.

At Sarghoda, 160 miles north- and of the subsequent amendment which gave the Ten-west of Lahore, horsemen arm- ed with spears and hatchets, aney Tribunal power to evict

who were leading a Moslem tenant in favour of a landlord

procession which tried to break claiming possession for himself or

a police corden, were scattered members of his family, suggest by police using staves. perhaps that the Appeal Court adhered too closely to the letter Land overlooked the spirit of the law. The amendment was specifi- ally recommended, and approved, on the ground that the rigidity of the original Proclamation imposed undue hardship on landlords re- quiring their premises for their awn use. It seems a natural corol-! lary that the introduction of a hardship clause of this nature should entitle, Tribunal of Court examine the relative degrees of hardship as between landlord and Writing the peace terms for to assume no one learned any-selves tomorrow, I would feel

Germany promises to be a thing much from tenant as a factor to be taken into tough job for the delegates who world war and how consideration. Any other view will gather in Moscow

next about You can assume that if London doorman, took a philo- would seem to ignore among other month, but it could be tougher. you care to, but if otherwise suphical view and heaped his

There is a stirring amongat) Remun Pro-Consul Martian. things die paramount purpose of Behind various plans and inclined, you may be interested scorn on this ungodly winter";

to Immediately upon the execution, the Proclamation ALS a whole, ideat already being

put for- in noting that all of Europe is He did not feel, even though he ex-Gunners in Hong Kong which is the protection of the in- word is the mctive which badly in need of things Ger- bug not been able to get any form an association. In none there came on a most fearful Bervices is there a tempest with thunder and produces in zal for two months, that Shin- of the terests of the Jawful tenant, in fairy common to powers which many normally

of fraternity lightning and fire. fell upon the durable well or the Government was to greater sense defiance of the common law, un-will du most of the -treaty peacetime-hardware,

than among those whe have cruel father and consumed him goods, precision machinery. It blume. tess the landlord can show good"}

His wife, he said; simply served in the Royal Regiment utterly; another. flash reduced appens that Russia which lost cause for the overriding of this main principle. The finding of

most of an inadequate indus- made allowancis, as all Britons of Artillery, Those who have artian to a smoking ah heap. trial setup during the war have become accustomed to do chce been in the service of the Hence the martyr is held to of thunder Mr. Justice Williams rejects this

Deeds this stuff as badly aring in the past soven years. gun relain a transcendent feel.he the patroness. interpretation and in a fashion

worse than anyone else.

For instance, it used to take ing of attachment, loyalty and and lightning,' of artillery and

regiment of arsenal. that brooks of no argument, save writing. This is determination Observers of the Russian 20 minutes, to boil potatoes on affection for their

There must be a considerable perhaps recourse to a higher not to repeat the same mistakes scene note this:

their gus ring and now it re- which neither time nor disper court. That being the case, it is which allowed Germany to rise Soviet Russians never had quires 30 minutes because of sal can abute and which "amidst number of former gunners in the clothes the reduced pressure. The potn- the pre-occupation of peace im- the Colony Eth those who are to be hoped that the Law Officers again after the first world war the gadgets and

and the good Iving they want. tres simply go on the stove 10 pel an urge to gather together fresh from the mechanised engaged in drafting the Ordin and bring on the second.

earlier. They also and keep the flame burning.batteries of the recent war and ance which is to replace the Land-

Getting together on how to ed, partly because their whole minutes prayent Germany from ever effort was diverted into build burn wood garnered from an There is something in very those, wliese traditions of scr- lord and Tenant Proclamation again becoming another mili- isg a production machine which abandoned American Army close and intimate association vice have been kept undimmed surely, will take the opportunity try threat is a task that will worked itself ragged for the comp

of the little family of the bat- from the days of the horse bat- si employing phraseology to cover have to be carried through a war. The Russians still waat Other typical cases-ihose tery which fosters a feeling of tities of previous wits includ. * some still. Apliu Street situation in a

do not live in common service and devotion to hig. it a hoped. maze of diversions. First, no these things. Now their people who

Fatzfwart veterans of the Boer nanner denying possibility of big power can afford to ignore soldiers are going home with steam-heated, houses and whose the same craft: --

of wages often de, not exceed the What uther regiment bus ita Marg tno obviously the wishes of the knowledge gained abroad small powers whose votes are what they have been missing allowance an American seran Patron Saint? From the The metts of the Regiment important in United Nations. Potential Russian demand for viceman gets under the Gledu- time of the introduction of "IsUbique quo fas et gloria. in the ducunt" wheresoever right councila on other suca atill consumer goods in so-great, in cation-plan, agreed that misery cannon Into warfare ahead This means at least a the opinion of some observers, seemed to be their lot this fifteenth century Saint Barbaralar glory lead." The

Some blame the to whom the fourth of Decem- ubiquitous sense of association preliminary period of many that it may force revision of year. ideas and proposals, while the the latest, Soviet five-year plan nationalisation of railways for bor is traditionally dedicated and duty might be maintained It was announced officially to-

big: powers listen to small for Industrial expansion toward the coal crisis, putting the has been the Patron Saint of an inpence as in war, and aight that Kurie Schmidt, 50,

larger and quicker volume. of finger on stockholders who still Artillery in all countries. The all, both officers and men, who Sturmalinfuehrer of the Leader's power plena... School for German' security police Another diversion is mutual consumer goods to satisfy this aintained executive Positions. legend of St. Barbara was in- have at any time, served but are Some thought inducementa troduced by the Crusaders to not now serving in the Royal under Heinrich Himmler, had been suspicion by most powers that demand srrested after he was found work- any inclination to go easy on So It would seem that basi should be offered to make min gether with that of St. George Regiment of Artillery are being ing for the America in the Germany means that some one cally no great, power has mare ing more attractive: But all the Patron Saint of England cordially invited to assemble at traced their and Saint Catherine of the the Volunteer Headquarters en 117th Station Hospital, in Wies- is trying to save her to be used interest than Russia in seeing whether they haden. Schmidt, pho-time police against someone else later on. German, production get started grievances to the weather or Wheel who lived about the same Tuesday February 28, at 6.45 colonel in the German Arry was Russia suspects this of the again. For Germany to resume to the Government agreed | time--Aucording to the legend pn to talk over the possibili also holding the job of Custodian west and the west returns the this production she must know unanimously that this and Saint Barbara who had em- tics of keeping alive in Hong of Property in the Wiesbaden German Denazification Tribunal compliment

where she is going to stand and had yet to face a more disccur braced Christianity was behead. Kong the freemasonry of the

aging future-United Press. d by her own father under guns. -United Press

To assume both are right is so must others

ubt ar misunderstanding.

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