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February 18, 1939.

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Boxer's Wife Dance Cancelled-Because

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Berlin.

Max Schmelingt, former heavy- weight boxing champion, left Ger- many for Havre recently, and Inter sailed for the United Stales with blu manager Max Machon.

Stories have spread through Berlin recently that he and his wife, golden- haired film actress Anny Ondra, have been in trouble with the Nazis, that one or both of them have been in a concentration

currency,

camp for smuggling

Other reports have said that the two were to port.

Miss Anny Omira said:

"Max and his manager are going to the United States for a business trip. They will not be there more than three or four toys.

"WILL BOX AGAIN"

"Max intends to box again, but not just yet, since he has not yet re- gained his proper form and strength since he injured his spine in his Oght against Joe Louis in June last year.

This trip in concerned with box- ing, but I cannot tell you any details. "As for me, I have heard a thou- ennd fantastic stories lately. They

Leopard Was Still Free

BOY STEERS SINKING SHIP

Weymouth.

Georgle Lambrecht, 15-years- ok son of Belgian fisherman. was at the wheel when the Ostend trawler Resistance, sinking rapid- ly. raced to port here recently,

The vessel, leaking badly, began to flounder in a heavy sea, 20 miles off Portland, and Skipper Joseph Lus sel his course for Weymouth. He docked only just in time.

He said: "The crew of five were at the pumps, so Georgle had to take the wheel. Ite is a great

Bitle fellow."

are so absurd that no one takes any natice of them.

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Paignton (Devon).

RMED men crouched in the jungle-like scrub at Primley Zoo for hours recently watching for the flash of a light that would mean the return to captivity of Ben, the 200lbs., fully grown Indian leopard which escaped after mauling Jack Hawkins, sixty-seven-year-old keeper, who was feeding it.

Hawkins is seriously 1 in Paigu ton Hospital.

As the men at the zoo kept watch, all round them in the darkness came the howls and cries of the queer ani- mals which have made local peoply cull Primley the "querrest zoo in the world."

Armed police and Territorlat om- eers found spoor (trail of pawmarks) leading to some of the thickest undergrowth in the 200 grounds. Nearby they found gnawed bones.

the tracks They followed

to greenhouse roof where u vane of glass had been smashed by the lea- pard. Then the trail was lost, but The light for which the men the police are sure the leopard is looked was fixed on the top of siceping in a lair in the heart of a wire trap, baited with pigeon. They thicket. hoped that when the leopard became hungry he would crawl from his hiding place in the dark, bile at the

SPOOR FOUND

"The truth is that I have been pigeon and automatically release for many months, and have just left door behind him and switch the nursing home."

the light above the trap,

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People living near the zoo tried during the day to treat the escape as a joke, but at dusk they hurried indoors.

CHILDREN WARNED

When darkness came on there was hardly any one in the streets, front and back doors were bolled, and windows were shuttered,

Teachers In the two schools in the district, the Paignton Senior Boys School, and the Hays Road Junior School. called the children

together and warned them to beware. on their way home.

Parents carrying pokers and sticks met the children. And some mothers were so frightened that they kept their children away from school.

Superintendent Milford made an- "keep Indoor" broadcast to- day-and soon afterwards local Conservative fancy dress ball which was to be held in a eate a few miles from the zoo, was cancelled.

other

Mrs. C. F. Churchward, chairman, sald: "We could not expect people to leave their homes with a leopard loost. So we cancelled the ball by telephone, telegrams, and notes sent by messengers."

Whoops Go, Cough Stays

NOTHER attempt was made re- cently 'g eure children of whooping-cough by taking them up in an aeroplane.

Three children from Midhurst, Sussex, accompanied by their mother, a woman doctor, flew 10,000 feet above Portsmouth,

They were Maureen Stevens, aged eight, her brother, Rodney, aged six. and their three-year-old cousin, Judith Pudney,

The machine was in the air for an hour, and the cost of the flight was Lo 10s. Od.

The experiment had been trikd ut Leeds, where I seven-year-old girl and her four-year-old brother were flown to a height of 21⁄2 miles. Some days later the father re- ported: "The whooping has stopped, but the cough remains,"

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