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Distributors To Form Mutual Aid Groups

SCHEME to ensure war-time food supplies by the formation of groups of Arms concerned with the wholesale distribution of provisions and groceries was announced recently by the Food (Defence Plans) De- partment.

It is designed as a safeguard against the possibility that the main office of a wholesale firm, or its warehouse or transport facilities, might be damaged or destroyed, and is to be applied in the first instance to large popula- tion centres including:

London Metropolitan Police Arca;

Chatham, Gillingham and Rochester;

Bristol, Cardiff and Barry; Liverpool, Bootle, Birken- head, Wallasey and Crosby; Manchester, Salford and Strot-

ford;

Birmingham

wick;

and Smeth-

Leeds;

Bradford;

Sheffield;

Hull;

Newcastic and Gateshead;

Portsmouth and Gosport;

Southampton;

Glasgow;

Edinburgh; and

Leith and Dundee.

All firms whose premises are within any of these areas are asked to form themselves into groups at once for the purpose of assisting each other should it become necessary in war-time.

FIVE OR MORE FIRMS

Each group sliould consist of five

or more firms, but preferably should not exceed elight,

The main object is that the group should be in a position to take over and carry on the business of any member if he should for a time be wholly, or partially, out of action.

The Department will carınark, as soon as possible, suitable premises. outside the evacuation areas to be available for Buch Kroups It they should need them.

In the event of the whole neigh- bourhood in which members of n group are situated becoming unten- able the businesses of all members of the group will be transferred to one or more of the emergency wholesale distributora depots out- side the evacuation area, and operated to cover all the customers and registered retailers of the group.

DUPLICATE RECORDS Immediately ʼn member resumes business after being put out of action registered re- his customers tallers) will be handed back to him.

It is emphasised that where no agreement had previously been made by a group on the terms on which a member's business would be handled

EXPERT IN CAMOUFLAGE

A man who deceived the enemy with cunning camouflage during the war died in London on a Satur

day Mr. Öllver P. Bernard.

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To have been a passenger in the torpedoed Lusitania when coming home from America to join up was one experience in his strenu- ous and varied life.

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Mr. Bernard attained captain's

M.C. rank and won the

while serving in the Royal Engineers,

distinction and later carned scente artist and stage desliner at Covent Garden and elsewhere.

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The Naval Gallery at the Wem- bley Exhibition. 1025, was design- ed by him and also some of tho

In siriking decorations London restaurants.

Tuesday,

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Circle encloses the swinging bouy,

DTENGHOUSE": hiountain, overlooking the Hudson river, near Cold Spring, N. Y. of Irving Felgin, 20, blown off a ledge by the wind while scaling the cliff. Youth became entangled in own sa tely line and was strangled and Battered to death before help cam e.

May 16, 1939.

Monkey Island

For Whipsnade Gay, colourful -

WHIPSNADE to have an island

next year. It will be construct-

ed for the Gibbons, and in the middle will be a group of trees no that visitors will be able to watch the extraordinary gymnastics of these members of the monkey family.

The Zoo's annual report, issued recently, which reveals this informa- tion,

attributes to the September crisis a decrease of 8 per cent in the Regent's Park menagerie attendances (1,816,012 visitors) and of no less than 23 per cent. at Whipsnade (523,045).

THEY LIKE CONDENSED MILK Other points in the report show that;

88,700 visitors went Into thic Children's Zoo ("Pels' Corner") in four months.

The Zoo sold 37 skulís, 40 sole of brains and 121 bodles of animals and other creatures that died in the

receiving £107 for them. ty-three tons of herrings.

Whiting

and

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SCARVES

and from $2.25 each

124 tons of horseflesh were bought for food.

densed Zoo's

Also, as much as 11,000lb, of con- milk was consumed by the creatures, as well as nearly quarter of a million bananas.

Whipsnade supplied about 900 wild rabbits, caught within its boundaries,

to

the Regent's Park Zoo for food. Incidentally, 41 lambs were reared

at Whipsnade and sold to the Zoo'n catering department.

GLASGOW ́ GIRL'

FOR FAIR

Catherine Kelly, of Old Kilpart- rlek, near Glasgow, is fourteen, has won more than 200 prizes for High- lund dancing, and now she is going to dance at the New York World's Fair. She was taught to dance by her father, who lost both his legs in the war twenty-three years ago.

Laird Faces Court With

Girl After 450 Miles Drive

Detectives Go To School

were

Campbeltown, Argyllshire. Mr. Richard Hamer, Laird of the island of Gigha, off the west coast of Scotland, and Miss Erica Moler, a German girl, for whose arrest warrants were issued some months ago, Melbourne, Australla. charged at the Sheriff Court at Campbeltown recently with con- Australla has just opened its first travening the Allens Act of 1920, training school-for detectives. The syllabus is based upon that of the i It is alleged that Mr. Hamer falled ensure that Miss

had been a member of his household Meter, who had lodged with him or

at Achamore House, Cight, from July 1 to October last year, should register under the Aliens Act.

It was said in court that he was luble to t One of £100 or months' imprisonment.

by his fellow-members they would to be taken in advance by whole-London Metropolitan Police College. to take steps to

salers to gafeguard their records of All members of the Criminal Investi- customers and to have duplicates gatlon branch will be required to

inke the eight-week course. fled in a safe, neutral place.

be under no financial obligation to

him.

Precautionary measures will need

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Lightning Ghost

COPENHAGEN,

The

Copenhagen observatory, did not MR. LUPLAU JANSSEN, of belleve in ball lightning.

Now he seems to be in the position of the man in the train, asked (so it wasis sold) by a fellow-traveller: "Do you believe in ghosts?" came the reply.

Miss Meler, whose address given as care of Miss Nyra Chorton, The Cottage, Pine Ridge, Farnham, Surrey, was charged with failing to register as an allen.

"NOT GUILTY" PLEA Both she and Mr. Humer pleaded not guilty,

the other and vanished into

to thin air. Mr. Janssen's conversion to belief In bail lightning came when, listening to the radio in his private room in the observatory, he opened a cur- tained window "to let in a lo light."

Mr. Hamer, with his wife, motored 450 miles to the court from London. A flery ball about 18in. In diameter,

Mr. Kenneth Macintosh, a Glasgow arrived through the opening. solicitor, who represented Mr. Hamer, Although "unable to belleve said that Mr. Hamer had not appear-eyes the astronomer gave chuse, as ed cartier, so that a warrant was the ball went slowly across his room and through an open door into the "That was not in any way due to kitchen, where it made straight to- jany desire on his part to show dis-wards Mrs. Janssen.

respect to the court," said Mr. Mac-

Issued.

intosh.

Suddenly it changed its course and

"It was simply due to the disappeared up the chimney. It ex- fact that he was abroad at the time, ploded outside,

"Mr, Hamer is an Englishman, and

was not familiar with Scottish: court out of all proportion to its import- proceedings."

ance.

"I hope to be able to convince the The case, added Mr. Macintosh, court that my clients have a com- had received an amount of publicity plete answer to the charge."

And Now For The Gland Derby?

"AND NOW FOR THE GLAND DERRY." THE WORDS WERE SPOKEN BY MR. A. MENZIES SHARPE, THE

| HERTFORDSHIRE GLAND EXPERT, AT THE END OF

THE F.A. CUP FINAL RECENTLY.

As the man who supplied gland extracts for Wolverhamp- ton and Portsmouth in the final, he had the distinction of being able to visit the dressing-rooms of each team,

But when the match was over, his Although he would not give me a thoughts turned from footballera to tip for the Derby, he hinted that the racchorses. "Glond treatment is race may be won by a rank outsider being given to more than one runner in the Derby, I have reason to be- lleve," he said..

"It is being carried out under con- ditions of the strictest secrecy, for the owners are anxious to 'cash in' on the improved form of their horses

100 HORSES TREATED "After proving that animal gland extracts are good for toning-up foot- ballers and athletes, I decided to experiment with racchoracs. The gland preparations are injected in the neck muscles twice period

of six weeks, "Already 100 hurses

+

weck over

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have received

a course of injections to give them increased speed, stamina and staying power, as well as confidence,

"Many a fine horse, is an iso-ran because: It nervous.... Gland treat. ment, we have shown, can curs nerves in horses.??"

which had been secrelly "glanded."

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