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NOVEMBER 22, 1938..

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THE POTATO MAKES HEADLINE

NEWS TO-DAY

No Two People Can Agree About It

The point to be decided, ladies and gentlemen, is-Should we, or should we not, peel our potatoes?

Abandon for a moment the grimmer worries which

Freed-With Expenses

Thwo men convicted in Glas- row of hausebreaking maintain- ed that the police had extorted them by from confessions threats, followed by a blow.

They were sent to prison for thirty days.

Recently the appeal court in Edinburgh quashed the convic-

cach tion and awarded soven gulneas exprusES.

Miss

beset you and join light-heartedly in the pow-wow about Gulder: I like them best the way potato-peeling, which, it seems, is going on in thousands of (otherwise) happy homes of England.

Cause of it all is cheerful Miss Alison Gifford-Harvey, who recently started her new job of "pushing" the potato on behalf of the Potato Marketing Board. She obligingly set to work on a prime Lincolnshire specimen so that a photographer could show how thoroughly she knew what was expected of her.

The result was remarkable. und serve them up with lots of salt It became immediately obvious and gravy." that there are two schools of thought on the potato problem --the Peelers and Anti-peelers.

PEELERS AND THE ANTIS' The cleavage avas complete. But

Doris Felcs, Hampstead

It's very we cook them at camp. cosy. You just wait till the camp- fire is glowing and put them in the red-hot ashes with their jackets on This way they lose none of their nourishment.

Baby Dead, Soccer Star To Play On!

Just before he heard he had been selected to play football for Wales Mr. against England at Cardiff, George Green, Charlton Athlelle F.C.'s right half, found his 18-months-old son Brlan drowned in a pond in the garden next to his home in Rochester Way Blackhead.

"1 shall play on Saturday, despite this," Mr. Green,Bald.

"I must try hard not to let fi game: 12 affect my

WEI be dificult."

Mr. Green described the tragedy while his wife stayed in the house next door with her dead baby,

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EMPIRE NEWS

QUEENSLAND WATER SUPPLY SCHEME

Sydney.

Dr. J. J. C. Bradfield, who was chief engineer for the construc- tion of Sydney Harbour bridge "Only a few minutes before it hop- NEW WAYS WITH THEM Miss Olga Turk, who lives at home pened," Mr. Green said, "Drian was and the Sydney Underground with her mother and father in Bays laughing and playing in the garden Railway, has submitted to the while I was helping Mr. Willam Queensland Government a vast water: "I eat no end of them.

areas of Queensland. It is estim- like them best served in their jackets Grant, my neighbour, to pull up a scheme for watering the inland -you know, the way you get them fence at the bottom of my garden.

"The moment we had made an ated that the cost would be from hot potato men in. ie street,

£30,000,000. But when they're done in their opening in the fence Brian went Catering for a multitude every day jackets at home I hate them. I sup-through to explore, and found his la the novelty of buying them way into Mr. Grant's gurden through

a gate In another fence, M.

in the (and therefore in Rene Lubegue, se it is the

ira. Mabel Partridge, of Eccleston-

"Later I missed him, and found him (malire-chef at Grosvenor House, W.),

contributing a recipe street, Victoria (who has to cook for at

family of live): Potatoes are rather lying face downwards in the pond in helped by which ought to suit both schools:

think up

CUT THEM IN HALF

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The plan contemplates Impounding of water from the a huge volume watersheds of northern Queensland, I would be carried by tunnel and queduct through the Great Dividing flowing rivers for irrigation and the the Great Aus- watering of stock trallan Basin extending to the New South Wales border.

at least some interesting things were wall or bake your pointoes in uninteresting vegetables, so I try to /20/n. of water. I irled to revive him, Range, and emptied into the inland

mnade known.

1

ar but it was no use.

to make attrac- "I think Brian must have stopped to look at the goldfish in the pond, tivemos nes tulee them in te electric oven, scrape the potato out of the jacket, mix it with butter, and fell in, striking his head on the milk, tomatoes, and other vegetables, bowl containing water lilies."

into its jacket Miss Ellaline Terriss (equally well and slide it back

"I ke known as the wife of Sir Seymour

Sald daughter Rowena: Hicks) remembered the nourishment in the skin of a potato. "What a them in their jackets because ils such I enn'l cook, mistake to lose it" she exclaimed, fag peeling them. They ought to "Potatoes in their jackets are nicest have zip-fasteners on.

anyway!" and best."

their skins. Cut them in half when Miss Frances Day (as light as u finished. Mash the insides and add feather despite thousands of pota-butter and milk. Then replace into toes) said that by instinct she was the skins. The results are pommes

surprises." an Anti-peeler.

"I have potatoes in their jackets "I even

again." I can," she said, whenever

peel as well. I think try to cut the most people are Anti-pectern at heart. But anyway, a lot of nonsense is talked about potatoes, peeled or not, making us fat. They don't."

Forty-years-old red-checked Mrs. Rose Joy, of Lewis Trust-bulldings, Fulham, widowed mother of three, is

a Pecler.

Australia Lends To Citizens

Dr. Bradßeld estimates that the scheme would make possible an In- crease of 20,000,000 sheep in Queen- sland's flocks and would expand the by annual

income of Queensland £10,000,000.

At present lossen of stock caused by drought Canberra.

Queensland aggregate in £2,500,000 a year, Dr. Bradfield At 4 per cent. Interest, that clates. capital expenditure of

Battleship not wanted.--The Minis sum would pay the Interest on a

ter for Defence, Mr. Thorby, states made by that the Federal Government will not consider the suggestion

The Federal government has de- Twenty-years-old Miss Margaret

cided to open a bank for granting Richards, saleswoman, of Southfields,

who are in some pressing need. The Wimbledon: The controversy means Cows Eat White Lead loans to citizens of good character

ure just nothing to me. Potatoes

Syracuse, N. Y.

loans are to be repaid in 12 monthly love

charge to the "We cat 4lb. at a meni," she said. food-but very nice food. I

Eleven euws died from lead poison- Instalments, the golden brown colour! good wash them baked "I give our potatoes a

peel them with roast beef. Fattening? Well, ing on a farm near Syracuse. The borower being 12 per cent. on the running water.

cows kicked over a tub of white lead amount outstanding from month to under

month. short, does it look like it? (I certainly

and ate the contents. quickly and thickly with

them did not.) worn-down table-knife, boll

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Jamaica

UNION OFFICIALS ON SEDITION CHARGE 4

Kingston.

Two prominent officers of the trade unions organised by Mr. Alexander Bustamente, the Labour leader, wert recently found guilty of sedition.

The case, which was heard by a jury and lasted two days, arose from an article published by the two ac- Labour weekly cused inen in journal during the rioting two months ago. Sentence was deferred.

The

strike of labourers on the sugar estates of Tale and Lyle, in and the Vere district, continues, sugar is being moved from there to Kingston under police escort. The strike has lasted a week, but so far there has been no disorder.

India

SHIPPING BACK TO NORMAL

Calcutta.

A number of steamships, the de- partures of which from Calcutta und Madras were stopped during the International crisis, have resumed their normal sailings.

The vessels were chartered by the Government for the possible move- ment of troops and stores.

Seven

Persons Drowned. Two men, three women and two children drowned owing to the have been turning over of a bullock cart in a flooded

Anantapur, stream near

Madras.

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NEW FARMERS' UNION IN ALBERTA

Lethbridge.

The organisation of a strictly non- political farmern union combining all agrarion groups in one body has been launched in South-Western Al- berta a aim is to protect primary producers.

A manifesto issued after the first meeting of the new body states that will demand a more stable price for the products of primary produ cers. This, It is added, will mean a more stable siandard of living.

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Fort Worth, Tex. The traffic law violators should be a little more careful what they, say to Patrolman Fred Holland hereafter. Holland can write short-hand, and, he does it to remember the things that some people say about "the law."

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KING'S THEATRE ENTER THE CROWD ROARS GUESSING CONTEST

TO WIN HANDSOME PRIZES

All that you have to do to enter this contest in to guem the number of people expected to attend, by paid admissions, all showings of the opening day of the METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER picture entitled 'RICII MAN, POOR GIRL' scheduled to follow the exhibi- Lion of THE CROWD ROARS",

Submit your guess with your name and address and send I lo the King's Theatre earmarked "THE CROWD ROARS GUESSING CONTEST. All entries must be in by noon of the opening day of Each contestant the production entitled 'NICH MAN, POOR GIRL. can submit as many guesses as desired, but each guess must be socompanied by the counterfoil of the ticket to see THE CROWD ROARS', though no single person will be entitled to more than Que prise.

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PRIZES:

2 First prizes of "Spalding" Top Flite Tennis Racquets. Donated by the King's Theatre and purchased from Mamak & Co., 10 Second prizes of pair of guest tickets to see the Laurel & Hardy picture entitled **Swiss Misa".