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SATURDAY, MARCH

5, 1938.

FERVOUR SWEEPS

JAPANESE GOODS "JUST WON'T SELL," SAY STORES

New York. WH

THEN the "National Consumers' News" here, in a survey of families with incomes of over £500 a year, asked: "Are you ready to promise not to buy any Japanese goods, even if they should be cheaper and better than competing lines?" 83 per cent. of them replied “Yes.”

Another survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion disclosed that three out of five Americans are on China's side, and that of them two out of three believe Americans should buy no Japanese goods.

The boycott movement is sweeping this country.

It is the only point on which the two great trade union organisations, the Committee of Industrial Organisation and the American Federation of Labour, are in agreement; and their combined 5,000,000 membership is solidly behind it.

Another 5,000,000 afflifatca 10 the American League for Democracy and Peace are pledged to it.

"FLYING SQUADS"

Typing "Police" As Sobriety Test

Port Talbot. Subjected to sobriety tests at a Grimths, of police station, David

Hundreds of thousands of pocket Newroad, Llanelly, was asked to type guides on what are and what are not the word "Police." The result was Japanese goods liave been dis-"Pollen." tributed.

This was stated at Port Talbot to In New York Boycott Com-day, when Griffiths was charged with milico has organised ying being under the Influence of drink

first squads" of shoppers. who

to sell or while in charge of a car. not urge shopkeepers show Japanese goods, and then, if the shopkeepers refuse, picket the shops with posters.

Statements have been issued by officials of most of the big chain stores announcing that nothing more will be bought, from Japan for the

time being.

UNITED STATES Girl Has £500 Wedding As Family Wins £30,780

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VERY grand wedding is being planned down Wan- stead way. The bride is 26, slight, dark, and pretty, and the £500 “floral and choral” celebration of her mar- riage to her shoeshop assistant fiance is, as her father puts it, "Cinderella's dream come true.”

A year ago Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Lovy, who live in Wanstead, Essex,

wero gloomily wondering with their daughter just when she and Mr. Will

afford to marry, writes Phyllis Hare, her fance, would be able to Davies.

Then one Saturday afternoon Mr. Levy, working as a cabinet maker in the East End, won £30,780 for six- pence in a football pool. And Dora, his daughter, had a shore. brought her £7,000.

which

BROTHERS SWEPT

1,100 FEET

Two brothers, caught La an Would avalanche when ski-ing near Pon-

were awopt-

"WEST END DINNER" "We never dreamed we ever be able to afford such wed- tresina, Switzerland, ding for Dora, who has been working 1,100 feet down hill-one to death, as a shorthand-typist," Mrs. Levy the other to safety. said. "But she is going to have a wedding as grand as any in May-

1

Plot-Omeer Holden, R.AF., of

Castle, Sibden

Shropshire, was ceremony will be Floral and caught in a hollow, and buried in -Mr. and Mrs. Levy were the snow.

He was dead when extricated 16. very anxious that I should be sure what that meant. "There'll be a full cholr at the synagogue and there'll minutes later. be flowers everywhere, inside and outside.

Dr. Campbell, of Pontresina, told "This ceremony will be followed the Dally Herald over the telephone: by a dinner, buffet supper and "The brothers turned off the usual ball for 200 guests at a West End

the

club. Yes it will cost every penny skl run and crossed a long, steep of £500."

slope never used by skiers. Mr. M. Davies, defending, declared

What Mr. and Mrs. Levy are most

they "In doing so

started that Grimihs bad never before used af typewriter, and not one man in 100 proud of is that their daughter is

avalanche. which her flance was only an assist-

"Crowds saw them make the fatal could pass such a test in similar clr-now owner of the shoe business in

ant carning 2 10s. n week a year mistake; and shouted to them, but it. cumstances.

ago. And Dora now has 15 pairs of

was too late," shoes in her trousseau,

Griffiths was fined £5 and his leence was suspended for six months,

The F. and W. Grand Stores head- quarters say they have received letters from branch managers all over the country urging stoppage of s Japanese goods, which "Just won't: sell."

Japanese manufactured goods are lying unsold all over the coun- try, but the main effect of the boycott is going to be felt in the silk markets where Japan is most vulnerable.

The United States ordinarily buys 85 per cent. of all Japan's exported

Speaking recently in Wa- shington, Mr. W. E. Dodd, former U.S. Ambassador in Berlin, said a boycott of Japan by Britain and the United States could stop the in China in three war months.

-silk-and-more than nine-tenths of this allk goes into women's stockings. If all purchases stopped Japan would lose more than half its trade with the United States at one blow.

Women are now giving every in- dication of intending to stop this trade. They are buying lisle stock- ings.

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