1939-05-15 — Page 3

ROACH HAS NERVES,

Bench Divided In Cruelty Case

THE roach has a brain and nervous system more primi- tive than, but comparable with, those of the human system, an expert told the Woodstock (Oxon) magistrates recently during the first case of its kind concerning the use of live bait by an angler.

The R.S.P.C.A. had summoned Frederick Margetts, of Oxford Street, Woodstock, alleging that he caused un- necessary suffering to a roach when fishing for pike:

The magistrates were equally divided, and the chairman, Alderman F. T. Whitlock, said as he had no casting vote it was impossible to come to a decision. The clerk told Margetts that the case might be reheard later,

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Mr. Gordon Jones, prosecut-i

Public Opinion Anding, said the case was not in any

Conscription

an attack on the estab- lished rights and privileges of Janglers. It was an attempt to put a stop to "a debased practice opinion on conscrip- which was not supported but tion was taken between rather condemned by the better

class of anglers. April 21 (when nows of

A SURVEY of public of a certain nettisupported

impending conscription

"THREADED"

He described how two inspectors of

first leaked out) and the Society saw Alargetts fishing for pike in the lake at Blenheim Pork, April 26 (the day on the seat of the Duke of Marlborough,

bait. which Mr. Chamborlain using live roach as

Special needles had been insert xi

line to which hooks were attached

its

Monday,

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The Prince Imperial of Iran, Shahpur Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, pletured with his bride, Princess Fowziya of Egypt, King Furouk, Queen Farida, and the Egyptian Queen Mother. An official group taken in the Queen's apartments at the Abdin Palvee, Cairo, recently after the signing of the marringe contract, an event that was celebrated with immense enthusiasm by the great crowds gathered in the expital,

Drawings

By Girl

On Show

Of 31⁄2 On

Bow Bells May Be Silenced

BOW BELLS, within the sound

of which every true Cockney

is supposed to have been born,

announced the Governing the back of the fist and then CHIRLEY ANN BAKER, of Hatfield Buildings, Bath, now apmay soon be heard no more.

proaching the mature age of four years, has had some of her was put through this channel. The pencil drawings accepted by the Royal Drawing Society for the They were seen at the Children's Royal Academy, roach thus threaded was put into the water to swim about and attract its second time. natural enemy.

which opened in the Guildhall Art Gallery.

mont's decision to adopt compulsory service for men of 20).

It shows that a substantial majority of the voting popula- tion was in favour of the volun-

tary system.

Dr. John Baker, Lecturer in Zoo-

Pictures by artists aged from two to 19 were shown. his opinton the roach, as Margetts lony at Oxford University, sald inj

Last year the Society accepted Shirley's sketches of a rabbit threaded it, would experience pain and Mickey Mouse; then she was the youngest exhibitor, being

but only 21,

because it had a brain und nervous! system, more primitive Uian,

comparable with, that of the human Pictures by artists aged from two to 19 will be shown.

which opened in the Guildhall Art Gallery.

nervous system.

"WOULD SUFFER"

The question put to a repre- sentative cross-section of people He described

Mrs. Baker anid that Shirley

in all parts of the United King" which he killed another dom by the British Institute of chloroform, threaded it in a similarjects were a cup and saucer. Public Opinion was:

way, and then examined it under a

an experiment in began to draw when she was 18 ronch by months old, and her first sub-

"It has been decided to en-microscope to see what damage was

large the British Army to 33 caused.

Mr. E. J. Heather, an

FATHER PAINTS IN OILS

"I sent up several of her pletures Oxford this year, but I do not know which

Field Divisions. Are you in-veterinary surgeon. said the Ash have been accepted," she added. favour of obtaining the neces- would undoubtedly suffer severe Shirley's father, who is a plumber, paints in oils In his spare time, and sary recruits on a planned and in

Margets stated he was unaware a number of his works are hanging! compulsory basis, or of loaving] he was causing suffering to the Ash on the walls of their home. it to Individuals to enrol volun-¦ and had no intention of being cruel.

"I have been painting for several tarily ?***

The method he adopted was the only years, but I never had any lessons,' way of fishing likes for pikte.

Mr. Baker said.

OF THOSE QUESTIONED:

53 por cent. said Voluntarily

39 per cont. said

By compulsion

8 por cent. said No opinion:

Hitler's Signature

Animatrils of Government and Not-Autograph Prize

“An

Opposition supporters who voted

shows:

GOVERNMENT

For compulsion

No opinion

DO YOU POSSESS A SIGNED LETTER FROM HITLER?

IF

30, YOU CAN ADD £25 TO THE ESTIMATE OF YOUR ASSETS, BECAUSE THAT IS THE PRICE YOU WOULD GET

. 45 % FROM A DEALER IN AUTOGRAPHS.

For voluntary system 44 %

11 %

This business of trading in autographs is increasing by

Majority FOR compulsion 1% A Don Looks leaps and bounds nowadays, and

OPPOSITION

For compulsion

For voluntary system No opinion

31 % 64 %

Back

it is estimated that there are at least 500,000 autograph col. lectors in Britain.

In America, where they do 5%R. TERROT_REAVELEY things on the grand scale, there GLOVER, who retires from are some 2,000,000 autograph all his academic posts at Cam-"fans," including 10,000 men bridge under the age-limit next and women who have set up in compulsion 33 September, will also relinquish the autograph business.

Majority AGAINST

House of Commons division in the post of Public Orator (the April showed 370 for conscription of officer who presents distinguish ages of 72 and 28.3

The German Dictator might not be

men of 20, und 145 against-percent-\nd visitors to the Faculty) to the Pleased to know that, as signatures)

Men were slightly more in favour of conscription than wo- men (four men to three women) and the appeal of compulsory service is more attractive as peo- pla get older.. Popularity

of

University.

In the course of his official duties, he recalled he had so far presented:

Four Prime Mlolsters; One ex-President of the United

· States;

Two Kings;

One godi

"at least he ranks as a god in his conscription on country and in his own faith, roaches its highest poak 154 per although not in mine," said Dr. cent, for compulsion) among the Glover. "It was the Emperor of wealthiest group of the popula- Japan.

tion, and falls to 41 in the middle

Ko, the value placed on his is small.

A few years ago, for example, it was reported that an autographed letter from George Bernard Shaw changed hands at £150, while you would need £200 to buy a genuine signature of Charles Dickens.

£20,000 SIGNATURE

The most valuable signature in existence is belleved to be that of William Shakespeare. Experts

£20,000 have mentioned moderate price.

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Film stars on the other hand, are amall fry, and most of their signa- tures change hands at a shilling or "My experience of Cambridge ex- two. The reason, of course, is that

MORE WIVES

income group, and to 33 per cent. tends over 50 years," he went on they are always obliging their ad-

Dr. Glover was born in 1869) "and mirers with autographs.

among the poorest section of the population.

if I were asked to sum up my im-} The hunting instincts of the auto- It should be omphasised that pressions of the differences I have graph collector are shown by the ex- the above findings aro based on a seen they would be:

periences of the Australian cricketers who visited Britain last year. carefully-balanced and reproson- "More undergraduntes, more icc-,

According to Mr. Jeunes, man- tative cross-section of opinion ures but possibly less reading, More ager of the team, each of the 10 science. moro -wives, .but Zewer from all political parties, ages clergy. As for religion I think there

players signed his name 0,000 Umes during the visit- collective and classes."

was more of it 25 than 50 years ago;} total of nearly 100,000 signatures! more, also again perhaps than there is to-day,

"ÅR to the Union, there is a solid an ordinary cricket bat, when auto- Lelt Wing element. The bulk of the graphed by the entire touring side, undergraduates do not frequent de realised £135 at a charity auction. bating societies. And no one knows

"RADIO WIDOW"

SUES

Oakland, Cal.

Individually, the signatures not have been very valuable.

professorships

may

But

To the "gold widow" has been add-Just what the politics of most under-

held

at Oxford, d the "radio widow." Mrs. Melba graduates really are, E. Billings in her suit for divorce

"One last word: There is no decay Queen's University, Canada, and the The University of California, is a classical Enya she is one. Because her hus-in the study of the classics. band allegedly "spent all his time is classics are not dying. And that is scholar, his subjects being compara- tening to the radio in spite of her a good thing."

tive religion, the classies, and Latin, proteate," she has asked for a sepuraTM Dr. Glover, who was President of info which language he has trons

the Baptist Union In 1924, and has fated R. L. Stevenson."

tion.

They are the bells of St. Mary-le- now, Cheupside, which may have to close fur lack of money,

More than a month ago the rector, Prebendary W. G. Pennyman, sexti out an appeal for people to become

antal subscribers.

Only £7 15s. 6d. has been pro-

mised.

Even American sightseers don't go now to see the bells that made Dick Whittington turn again.

Foreign Spies Traced In The North

LIVERPOOL.

TWO officers attached to the Special Political branch of Scotland Yard are investigating the activities of the German espionage system in the North.

They arrived here some time ago and after consultation with the heads of the C.L.D. of Liverpool and Manchester, set out to counter work that has been carried on by important Nazi agents in England.

It is understood that information supplled to German ngents in the

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North: by Secret Service operators Sheep Halt Bush

purporting to be of vital importance

Fire

CAVAN, N. S. W.

J. W. Thatcher, nearby rancher,

to an enemy country, was transmit- ted to Germany within a few hours. The information was wrong, but it served as proof that the men under) auspicion were acting as agents for saved his homestond from a bush Are that was creeping steadily toward it Germany.

The Secret Service men have re-by a method probably never before ceived instructions from the Home employed. He mustered 1,100 sheep Offee to inquire into charges that around his home and with sheep dogs other Germans In the North, not be cot the sheep milling about so that lleved to be connected with the Ger- when sparks fell near his home they man espionage service, are playing trampled them out, Ho, anved his some part in the spreading of Nazl sheep and his home but all of hla

outlying properly was burned. propaganda.

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