1939-05-02 — Page 16

Tuesday,

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LOST BOY TRIED FOR

FILM PART

'HID' BY LOOKING

OUT OF WINDOW

THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD song-writer

SOUTHEND.

Ronald Ernest Crafer, who ran away from his home in Dalmatia-road, Southend, recenty, returned home three days later.

His face was black with the amuts from the engine. "He had travelled by train from London standing with his head out of the window so that the people in the carriage would not recognise him from the description in their evening papers.

Ronald's parents thought he had gone to the BBC, in London to try to get muste ha had composed played on the radio.

After he had been weli scrubbed, Ronald sald he went to Kensington because he did not think he was getjing an equal break with others, and he wanted to go to an audition for a film where. boys of thirteen were wanted.

He found the audition was to be held at a later date and wandered round the museums till they closed.

"I drew out tho 14s. I had in the bank before. I left," he said. "After the museums closed I wandered to night on Battersea and slept the board a motor-bait in the river.

I wandered about

Hall in Bensington and slept in

mostly in

the

last night. To-day 3

GOERING BANS THE

LAMBETH WALK

Members of the German Air Force are forbidden by a spécial dcoree, signed by Field-Marshal Goering, to dance the Lambeth Walk.

This dance is said to present undigalded picture not in

A keeping with the serious tasks of the Air Force."

Air Force bands in uniform may not play the tune,

Despite this, and similar bans, the Lambeth Walk remains wildly popular throughout Ger- many.

bont shan the wandered along river until The last of my 14s. went in buying came to Shadwell, where I caught a ticket home." train for Southend.

"I knew to-day was half term at school and I intended to be back in time for my lessons in the morning.

Mrs. Crater sald: "Ronald has been trying to get music publishers or the B.B.C. to take up his songs. He is a radio fon."

Actress's 6-Storey Death-Leap

NEW YORK.

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Spanish Children

Large familles-that's what Generalissimo Franco, Spanish dictator, likes. Here, at Burgos, he is being cheered after pre- senting subsidies to parents having the largest number of children under 14 years of age. Subsidies were given to 38 families in the area.

They Call Them Sardine Tins Down In Clarkson-St., E.

STANDING or sitting, which way do you take up least room? they were asking recently across the front fences in Beth nal Green, E.

All along Clarisson-street women The Pattens have a cherry tree, und children were waiting at front the only one in all the back-yards doors, having a half-hour holiday of their street and the next one. from work while delivery men "It's been here eighty years or heaved A.RP. shelter parts into more," she said. "In May you can back-yards.

smell it from way down at the other "They don't look big enough to end of the row."" hold all of us," said the women.

Melancholy and tired of a life which brought her four hus-their, three bands and four divorces, beautiful Gladys Frazin Banks, actress and former wife of Monty Banks, producer of Gracie Fields's films, sat by the window of her New York apartment all night recently contemplating suicide-and at dawn' made the jump that killed her.

MUST WE PAY?

a few doors away from the Pattens.

PROBLEM No. 1: Mr. Wright wants to know-Can a man really put up the shelter by him- self?

'con-

Mrs. Edith Stewart, who lives upstairs at No. 27 with her husblems to Mr. and Mrs. Percy Wright, The new shelter brought two pro band and baby, said: "We'll be live sardines, fin and all." Below

Stewarts live the

Mrs. Cordella Cable, her husband,

anci children. "That's right this

house, if they don't altogether in

"If we can't," said Mr. Wright, get the children away in time."

"we will have extra rates to pay." Each shelter, according to officials,

Daniel J. King, town clerk of is supposed to hold four people.

But that brings lile comfort to Bethnal Green, In a circular letter, Mr. and Mrs. Patten, at 27, Clark-oys: "The more people who get the council to erect and sink shelters, son-strect A taxi-driver cruising along West, and she was broken-hearted because

"We are small eaters, really," said the more will be the cost of your End-avenue saw her body, dressed she could not make a come-back."

Mrs. Patten, "We're just naturally rates; but this is better than having Mrs. Banks, who made her name big people,

the shelters He's about seventeen

not properly in cerise pyjamas, fall to the pave- ment from a sixth storey window, in London by one line in an Ameri- stone, my husband. And look at me.

strucled," can play. The Trial of Mary I'm fourteen stone and six feet tall

FROBLEM No. 2: Mrs. Wright 'FORGIVE ME'

"You can't ride to hell in without high heels." Beside her bed, which had, not

wants to know-How am I going Dugan

wheelbarrow" tried retain her

to get the family into the shel- been slept in, the police found assoc

JUST ROOM

ter? association with the stage by train- note which read: "Dear mother and ing her nineteen-year-old son Leo. Mrs. Patten worked out cuble i

"We've five of us here, all adults," dad, Please forgive me for what I But lately even that task did noi capacities and decided there would she said..

doing. I

"Then there is Oscar, the rabbit, longer. Love Raphael Sucks, an-

suffer any satisfy her yearning for the foot- just be room for them in their

But not much left over for and the birds [four budgerigars, in lights, make-up and, above all, the shelter. According

the young couple who live upstairs. two cages and ive canaries]. applause. tique dealer, who lived opposite,

She married Monty Banks, her The shelters, eft. Gins. long, 4ft. and Freda too," Mrs. Banks climbed from the win fourth husband, secretly in America Gins, wide, eft, high, would have 170.4 dow the previous evening, looked up in 1929. They first met in it London cuble-feet-of-space-Inside-them-if and down the street, then climbed hotel lift. Three years later they the roof didn't curve. The curve, back.

were divorced in Hollywood, Mr. beginning about four feet up the He saw her later staring moodily Banks accusing her of crucity and wall, cuts off about thirty cuble feet out of the window.

frequent disappearances from home. of Mrs. Banks had been depressed for He claimed that she was often in- months. Each evening, according to toxicated. her brother, she went to bed dream- ing of repeating the success sho

made in the part of Tondelays in Con Men Lose To

"White Cargo." awoke, just another actress out of work.

This morning's dawn was the last 'she could face.

And each dawn she

.SHE NEVER FORGOT

"She was grief-stricken at being

Their Elder

Cleveland, O.

the

Freda is the cat.

Oh.

And just to give Mrs. Wright an extra problem there was a smear of red along the wallpaper in the hall. "It's from these girders, lady," the delivery man said. "They're drip- Assuming the Pattens, broad-ping wet with paint." shouldered and broad-hipped, to be cylindrical with diameters of twenty inches, they alone, without bulky

space.

conts, boots, chaire or benches, will Hat Valued At $500

take up twenty-six cuble feet of space. But human beings need more thar their own cuble capacity to live When two confidence men asked 78-in,

"I wonder if there will be any room year-old Adolph Schaad to withdraw $1,200 to prove himself "substantial for air to breathe," said Mrs. Patten. citizen," he agreed, but insisted that "And I wonder if we can get the

rooting our tree.”

Philadelphia.

A man's Panama straw hat valued at $500 was exhibited here at the convention of the Merchant Tailor Designers' Association. The hat was woven of braid thread-like in tex-

May 2, 1939.

EMPIRE NEWS

INDIAN FINANCE

BILL'S FATE

New Delhi.

Mr. Jinnah sealed the fate of the Finance Bill in the Central Assembly recently by declaring non-co-opera- tion.

of

The Moslem League party, which Mr. Jinnah is the head, i deeply concerned over the reccat meetings between the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, and Mr. Gandhi, The party suspects that these meetings are designed to resch an understanding on Federation over the head of the Moslem opposition.

Mr. Jinnah charged the Paramount Power, in the States and the Gover hors in Congress-governed Provinces with falling in the protection of minorities. He equally condemned Congress for the treatment of Mos- Icms.

He said that in both cases Moslems would fight to their last breath, but meanwhile to oppose the Government on details of the Finance Bill meant helping Congress, since the League held the balance of power. There- fore he refused to vote.

This leaves Congress and its sup- porters outnumbering the Govern ment, so that the bill, which includes the enhanced Import duty or raw colton, will have to be certified by the Viceroy.

BRITISH GUIANA

JEWISH. INQUIRY

ENDING

of

Georgetown. The members of the Commission Investigating the possibilities Jewish immigration In British Guiana will all return from the Rupununi district shortly.

Mr. E. C. Bataille, the financial expert, recently flew to New York. Two other American members, Dr. E. C. Ernst, the chairman, and Dr. J. A. Rosen, left later.

The members will reunite in New York or London to draft their report. It is generally belleved here that the Commission is Impressed by the wide variety of raw materials con- vertible into industrial manufactures, such as glassware, pottery, textiles, and paper. At present the constal needs. population is supplying agricultural

The commission consists of experts who were sent out to British Gulana by the American Advisory Commit- tee on Refugees.

Rice Mills Flan-A report by Mr. Harold Parker, manager of the Government rico mill at Perak, re- commends that the British Guiana Government should close privately- owned rice mills and take over the erect modern central units. industry. The Government would

CANADA

FOREIGN POLICY TO BE OUTLINED

Ottawa.

A broad interpretation of Canada'e foreign policy will be presented In the House of Commons when the De- fence Estimates or the Estimates of the Department of External Affairs, are brought down.

This was stated by the Prime Min- ister, Mr. Mackenzie King, replying to Mr. Thomas Church, Conservative member for Toronto, who declared It was time the Government gave a detailed report on its foreign policy. Mr. Mackenzie King said he thought the appropriate time to dis- cuss the matter was when the Estim- ates were introduced, which will be as soon as current Government legis- lation is disposed of. SOUTHERN RHODESIA FARMERS' SCHEME FOR MANUFACTURES

Salisbury.

Farmers are taking the lead in advocating the establishment

of

unable to get a job," said her they accompany him to the bank. shelter into the garden without up- ture and resembled linen hand-secondary industries to manufacture

brother, Louts Franzin. "She could They walked off rather than never forget her success on the stage, the bank, he said.

Germans Object To British Cantata

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THE GERMAN Kulturgemeinde have objected to the performance of Vaughan Williams's cantata, "Dona Nobis Pacem," at Baden Baden International Music Festival.

Works by Italian, Hungarian, French, Dutch and other com- posers were given at the Festival.

It was the original intention of the

festival authorities that a concert of Luise Rainer As Star

M

In Deval Comedy

i

Ikerchief.

Quinine First Line Of Defence Against Malaria

primary products and to improve the local market for agricultural prices. A memorandum from the Mata- beleland Farmers' Union to the Economic Development Committee suggests a textile factory, a tinned meat factory, the production of power alcohol from maize, the manufacture of sisal fibre, pepsin from papaws and starch from sweet potatoes

drwn to the possibility of sugar, rice. The Commitice's attention is also tea, coffee and hemp growing on a larger scale.

Own Funeral Arranged

"QUININE retains its place on the wanted. Drainage and irrigation in Arst line of defence against malaria,” the countryside, where food and writes Mr. A. S. Haynes, former wealth are produced from Mother M.C.S. officer, in the Asintic Review Earth, are

more important than

Model of Victoria Falls-Good in an article on Malaria and Quinine large buildings in towns, in the East.

Neglect brings a long chain of siruction of the large model of the progress is being made with the con- commission on Rural Hygiene which of rivers and other watercourses feature of the Colony's exhibit at the Mr. Haynes was chairman of the evils-soll erosion, gradual silting Up Victoria Falls which will be the main toured Asla in 1930 preparatory to raised river beds, floods malaria, World's Fair, New York. The model the inter-governmental conference in poverty and apathy. By these and will be 180ft. long and 22ft. high, Java in 1937.

other means we must attack the with 40,000 gallons of water passing There are, of course, other contri-source, the mosquito in selected over it every minute. butory defences which the Individual reas and intensively at first perhapa. can undertake, such as the regular There is, great value in a demon- music by English composers should

use of mosquito nets, better sanita- stration of tome successful scheme. have formed part of the scheme, and

tion, cleanliness in and around houses. There is also great value in small among the items suggested by the

But in spite

pite of the pre-eminent place units of administration, which are English promoters of this concert was the cantata "Dona Nobla Pacem." Luise Rainer, the Hollywood film that the eradication of malaria by ly. To them it is more quickly clear occupied by quinine, the fact remains flexible and can decide and act rapid-

PITTSFIELD, Mass. star, who has been in London for drugs la impossible. Whether the objection raised by the some weeks recently signed a con-

that the conquest of malarla is a good Hero is one person who knows German Kulturgemeinde applies to tract with Henry Sherek to make her about this; a planter friend of mine creating the right national habits.

"Planters could tell us something Investment, There is value, too, in what her own funeral will be like. A Pittsfield woman has selected her modern English music in general or rat stage appearance in England un-has not forgotten taking 40 grains of only to works by Dr. Vaughan der his management,

"In Malaya the Chinese drink casket, engaged the clergyman, set- quinine a day for three months. Williams (who lately received, the By her express destro Miss Rainer Drugs are a defensive policy. That

boiled water (weak tea) and use tied with the undertaker, and is now Shakespeare prize in Hamburg) or is to take the leading part in a is not enough.

mosquito nets. I don't know who malding the drem she wishes to wear whether the sentiments expressed in comedy, and a play by Jacques Deval.

`in the dim past extablished among

at her funeral. the text of Uila work are looked upon the, French author of "Tovarich," has

them theke national habite, bot with disfavour by the German au- been chosen. The title has not yet

was certainly no doubter or thorities, is not clear.

been fixed.

པ WAR AND PEACE

Rehearsals have starled. There

must attack the mosquita itself. "And doubting and wavering are will be a short tour of the provinces

Such a polley is good business; the things we have got to get rid of. "Dons Nobis Pacem" is one of the before the production goes to London.

rubber* Industry in Malaya, the Also we must get rid of the bricks latest and most impressive of Lulo Rainer is the wife of the

fishponds and rice-Acids in Java end-mortar mentality, put first things Vaughan Williams's choral composi- American dramatist, Clifford Odota, prove that. It is also good huma first, and substitute attention to, for tions. The words are taken from There never has been a time when

nity.

neglect of, io cou Old Testament, from lines by Joha

end we

ծնե Bright and by Walt Whitman. In that message, coming from one of the with if the economic condition and tlon. Dy this means we shall get a on a policy of rural reconstrue- theso the relative values of war and greatest living English, musicians, the nutrition & the people. We have combination of all departments peace are keenly and strikingly con- would be more significant, and there already seenbat better husbandry administration and of all methods '21o work werliten by an English out the hand of friendship to the malarial working with anti- | suitable to the problen whether larul

are many-of those who wish to hold goos hand-bi-hand, a

improvement and reclamation, ar composer within the last decade has people of Germany who will Bitterly There must be water control, so subsoil or other drainage, or biling the longing for peace been more regret the decision that has been that water can be got on to land and spraying or naturalbatic passionately expressed.

when wanted and got off it when not methods." adds Mr. Haynės.

laken.

175 must have a potior of attack; we must aim at nothing less. than the conquest of malaria Wo

waverer:

"Agriculture must be improved, and in countryside, ---

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