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BOY'S LETTER TO DUKE

April 19, 1939.

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GOT 17 YEARS

FOR ONE MAN

HIM PLACE IN EXPEDITION

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Young Rascal" Thinks Explorer's Name Is Omen

A 15-YEAR-OLD Lancashire boy arrived at London recently on the first stage of the biggest adventure of his life.

He is Frank Wilde, secondary schoolboy, of Doe Hey Road, Bolton, who a month ago wrote to the Duke of Gloucester asking to be allowed to join the expedition of public schoolboys which goes to Newfoundland this

summer.

to be

Frank is going to Newfoundland. His expenses are paid by the Navy League, and recently in London he met Lord Lloyd, president of the League, and Surgeon Commander Murray

- Levick, R.N., who is to lead the expedition.

"It was something my mother said that made me write to

the Duke of Gloucester," Frank said.

"I had larsor reading Ballantyne's books about Canada and the North," he said.

MOTHER'S HINT

"I had rend Fast in the Ice.' und was finishing 'Ungava' when I rend about the expedition.

"I told my mother that I wanted to; go to Newfoundland with the ex- pedition. All she sald was. 'You'll get nowhere unless you do something. about it,'

"The very next day I wrote the letter to the Duke.

"Then one day Mr. Roscoe, the headmaster at my school-the Junior! Technical Schoul, Bolton-enlled me into his room and said that he had letters about a boy called Wike, and was it me.

THE YOUNG RASCAL" "Alled up a form, had a medical examination. und the headmaster gave me a very good certiftente.

"When I inet Commander Levlek to-day he said: So you are

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"There a too much drudgery in farming" he said, "but whatever do I shall lead an outdoor life."

Mr. Fred Sainty. ust seventy- three, who has been with the firm nifty-two years and still walks four miles to his work, went to see, Laty Ebbisham.

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Vauxhall Bridge- Aylesford-street, "ile spelt his name just as I do." road, S.W should deputise for him. and Frank, "und he was a grand chap. I have read all about him Lady Eubisham made out an invita

tion to the wedding for Mr. Edwardy The expedition leaves for New- foundland on August 1, and the boys with a card on which she had writ-

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Petty Officer Loses Case

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Sentences totalling ninety- one and a half years were passed by Mr. Justice Hum- phreys at the Old Balley re- cently on nine accused men in the bombs trial.

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are the name the sen

tences given them:

Michael Joseph Maton, aged 20, engineer, of Great Nelson-street, Liverpool, SEVENTEEN YEANS,

Peter Stuart, aged 25, poster writer, no address, described in L.R.A. documents DE "Operations Officer,

YEARS. Britala-FIFTEEN

aged 3,

Chares James Casey, porter, of Vinduct-street, Bethnal Green-FOURTEEN YEARS.

Michael Preston, aged 23, labourer,

Pimlico

of Cambridge-sircet, TWELVE YEARS.

John Healy, aged 40, club, pro- prietor, of Fordington-road, flighgate

TEN YEARS.

James Michael Lyons, aged 20, French polisher, of Petherton-road, Islington-TEN YEARS.

George Brendon Kane, aged 23, butcher, of Harold-road, Sutton- SEVEN YEARS.

Michael O'Shep, aged 24, labourer, Clewer-Crescent, Harrow Weald- FIVE YEARS,

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Joseph Walker, aged 26, labourer, of Great Nelson-street, Liverpool EIGHTEEN MONTHS' HARD LABOUR

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Walker, Healy and O'Shea bad pleaded not guilty to all charges, Casey, Mason, Stuart, Preston, and Lyons, in refusing to plead when the trial began, each declared himself to be a "soldier of the Irish Republican Army."

TWO NOTES TO JUDGE

After an abence of an hour and a quarter the Jury-ten men and two women-sent the judge two notes and then returned to court,

The foreman asked two questions jot Dr.,Roche Lynch about aluminium powder found on Walker's coat, and then the jury retired again for an- other thirty-five minutes.

As soon as the verdicts of Guilty. had been returned the judge order- ed all the prisoners, with the ex- ception of Mason, Stuart, anil Preston, 40 below.

All the other accused, except those three, were hustled down the steps leading to the cells. Mason. Stuart, and Presion stood in a row side by sitle in front of the dock, each with his arms folded, awaiting sentence.

"O.C. BRITAIN" . Detective-Inspector Thompson said Engine-room Artificer Eric John A. Mason came to this country early in Jenkins, of 1.M.S. Curacoa, failed in December, 1938, and toolt over the his action for damages against his post of "O.C. L.R.A. Great Beltaine Admiral and Captain

Orrery,

Jenkins' case was that in January,

allccession to a man who was killed

of ៤ Judgment with costs was given in by the premature explosion the King's Bench Division in favour bomb on the Irish border," So Mr. Edwards, forty-seven-year of Admral of the Fleet the Earl of Joseph Walsh.

Stuart's correct name was Peter old "Old Contemptible." who has Cork und

He was born in swept the Ebbishum chimneys with Richard Shelley.

and Captain Glasgow, and was the son of a pen- his foreman,

the greeted

sioned police constable in that elty. Elizabeth

her bridegroom, the 1938, instead of being court-martiall and

When Mason was asked by the Hon. Guy Herbrand Edward Russell,ed, he was sentenced summarily to questions, he folded his arms across Judge whether he wished to put any R.N., brother of Lord Ampthill, as, they left the church.

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charge of his chest and, with a smile, said: "My disobeying his wilfully He said: "Lady

had officer.

superior Ebbisham

name is not Mason, I would like to given instructions that I was to go

It is More than eight years ago a Dun-up to her sun-in-law as soon as he only point for decision was whether

Mr. Justice Hallett said that the be sentenced in my real name.

Cleary." dee man quarrelled with his father, left the church, tap him on the Jenkins was left home, yet returned shortly after shoulder, and wish him good luck.

sentenced for highly! words and lived in the same street

Incubordinate conduct. "He didn't know anything about us bis father, without being seen.

this, and when I went up and sald This strange story was told

and I hope you have lots o' kids' he to him, I wish you the best of luck turned round and roared with laugh-

London,

Sheriff Court in connection with petition lodged by the father to pre sume his son dend, the petition was rendered necessary by the questioner. of payment under

Insurance The bride was a bit shy. She policy. Assenting to the withdrawal dropped her train, and he turned to of the Petition the Sheriff commented her and said, 'Hallo, what's happened on what seemed to be the almost im- here?"

possible fact that the son had lived "Then he turned back to me und within a few yards of his father for sald, "Thanks very much, I wish you so long without being seen,

all the best of luck as well.'"

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the Judge stated. "The adjective seems to me not to render highly insubordinate conduct. different offence from Insubordinate conduct."

Counsel for Jenkins were Sir Stafford Cripps, M.P.. Mr. Peter Pain, Central Portsmouth's 26-year- old Labour candidate, and Mr. An- thony Cripps.

Dealing first with Mason, Mr. Justice Humphreys, in stern, slow, tones, said:

"It is quite clear that you are an Incendiary. You were personally engaged in an attempt to blow up one of the pylons, and I am now told that you are what is called

'O.C. Great Britain."

"I regard you as the worst of the men in the dock."

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