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Who Should Be Star of R.A.F.?

No Answer, No Film

SHYLY hiding in a R.A.F. uniform a potential rival to Clark Gable must languish unhonoured and un- sung. His sad talė is just received. Thus—

In the House of Commons recently Mr. Garro Jones (Lab., Aberdeen, N.) is going to ask the Air Ministry why negotiations with an American company for a film to attract recruits to the R.A.F, had fallen through.

He wants to know, too, for how long, and with how many other film companies, negotiations have been proceeding with a similar object, and whether any other person than the Air Minis- ter can make the final decision.

And this is why:

Last year the Air Ministry had a plan to produce a R.A.F. film on Hollywood Ines-the Service plus human interest and heart-throb.

The whole scheme fell down over the vexed question of who should be the hero. The heroine was even reached.

CLARK GABLET

never

The publicity-minded section of the Air Ministry favoured a fitn etor ke Clark Gable (star of "Test Pilot," the Hollywood film).

The Service-ininded section of the Ministry shuddered at the idea of a Clark Gable

R.A.F. uniform,

playing a British officer hero of thei air.

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TRAGEDY QUEEN HAD FLOWER

The controversy raged behind the WHILE an inquest was being

scenes at

whole project fell through.

held at Dar-es-Salaam, Enst

Adastral House and the Africa, recently on Mr. Gordon Knight-Bruce, acting chief jus- tice of Tanganyika, who WILD found shot dead on November 6, his widow, Mrs. Betty Knight- Bruce, was flying home to Eng- Hand.

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Omeer in bera as detailed by the Charge of Company.

Indian Company

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between

She was travelling, to see her three: young children, Buîle, a girl of eight,; and two boys under fourteen. De- were talls of their father's death kept secret from the children.

They live with an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. 1. Sonmmerville Gunn, at Henbury House, Henbury, outside Bristol.

WAS RETIRING

Mrs. Gon said: "I have told the -hildren that their father was 1! vith malaria and met with an neel-i

18.00 hours and midnight by mem-lent. I have hol said what hap- bers us detailed by the Oficer in Charge of Company.

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pened and we have prevented them! from seeing the newspapers.

"It is a great tragedy that this between has happened, as we were all looking 18.00 hours and midnight by mem-forward to Gordon's retirement nexti bers as detailed by the Omeer in Charge of Company.

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July, when they would be home for good. He was forty-seven.

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HE SENDS HER WHITE GARDENIAS

W

7HILE the 29,150-ton battleship Royal Oak, escorted by four destroy- the across ers, carried North Sea the body of Queen Maud of Norway, in a passenger boat going the same way was a box of white gardenias.

Princess Bride For Peer

Newport,

Through heavy rain recently Lord Tredegar and Princess Olga Dol- gorouky, whom he announces he in the New Year, hopes to marry drove from Tredegar House to attend service at the ftoman Catholic church at Ebbw Bridge, on the outskirts of Newport.

Viscount Tredegar, who is 45, and the princess, a member of an old Russian family, danced together at the annual ball of the Tredegar Es- tates employees, and during an in- terval Lord Tredegar announced that after an early visit to Rome he hoped o bring the princess back to Trede- ther House as his bride.

They were addressed to Royal Palace at Oslo-the last tribute of a London flower seller whom the Queen befriended.

Lord Tredegur is a Papal cham- and Knight of Malta. berlain

of the Princess Olga is a member Greek Orthodox Church.

"She would like gardenlos," he Bald. "And, if you forgive me, Madame, please put that money away.

These are for my friend.

was not at his William Woodall

Every day when Queen Maud was in London she walked along Bond- street with her dog. Vancouver, B. C.

at the corner of As she arrived Joe Sanders was fined $10 and costs here for speeding in a boat, Har-Stafford-street tubby William Wood- "All she has said in her letter to bour ofleinis said Sanders began all, fifty-five-year-old flower-seller, pitch on the day she died. He was me is that he was found shot in his racing in the harbour in his motor-would hastily place his tray of vlo-sitting in his front room with a gun beside him. He, boat, endangering other craft and lets und gardenins on the pavement, unmade bed and two

snatch off his cap, select three of his kitchen chairs. had been ill lately."

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On his corner with his tray when a Then, taking off his cap, William woman came up, offered a £1 note. Woodall

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