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NANCY

ISN'T IT WONDERFUL.

UP HERE, SLUGGO?

YEAH---BUT. I WISH D' BUGS.

AN' INSECKS WOULD

KEEP AWAY

FROM MY BEAN!

Friday,

YES--- I'VE NOTICED HOW THEY SEEM

TO LIKE YOUR HEAD A LOT!

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CRICKET CLUBS FACE STAGGERING LOSSES

Some County Clubs In] A Serious Situation: Rain Affects "Gates"

London, Aug. 8.

The most worried men in England to-day are the treasurers of County Cricket Clubs. Rain upset the holiday “gates” and as these are normal- ly the best of the year the situation has become desperate.

Taking the

AS season

a whole the balance sheet is not to show p Warwickshire and Derbyshire have very substantial loss,

most, more than perhaps suffered and their respective secretaries are already puzzling their brains to find ways and means of making good a staggering deficit.

Warwickshire have

only

three

The crowds attending many of the games in which Northants, Leicester- shire, and Worcestershire have been not been worthy of engaged have

rst-class cricket.

Some of the towns do not deserve. Kames to play at home house county teams. Yet cricket against West Indies, Surrey and has a way of overcoming its most Gloucestershire-but

only

one

those inatches is a Saturday start.

of serious financial worries.

There will not, however, be any The ten home games so far played "nest-egg" from Test matches this have produced on average less than season like there was last year. With £200 per mintel; so there is every only three Tests, and there of only prospect of the total gate muney be-three days, the profits will be small, ing less than £2,500.

Not since the war has such a state of affairs existed, and Derbyshire are not much better ulf.

and when divided up of little as- sistance to impoverished counties.

There must be the inevitable appeals to the generosity of those given freely to This year their big money spin-who have already ner, the matches at Chesterfield have keep county cricket on its legs.

When I asked a club official if any been most disappointing, due almost entirely to the und weather. The help was expected from the MC.C. gates at Derby have been positively h disgraceful

BIGGEST TROUBLE

replied that firal august body content would sit bock bitssfully with its huge assets and reserves, and watch the strugglings of many

Several of the players and officials of the club maintain that one of counties, their biggest troubles was winning the championship in 1936.

"While the latter migh! retaliate by demanding more equitable treat- Derbyshire in that season whetted ment from headquarters." he added, the appetite of their spectators."the C.C.C, would raise its hands in They saw a winning team that went horror."

on to gain the title. The next sea-,

"Look at all the money we give

son practically the same team could you from Test

matches and tours

not maintain its position, and the overseas," would be their obvious re- spectators became disappointed.

CABI

ply.

That disappointment hug

But who earn the muney at Test and overseas tours? Not tinued, and it has been reflected in matches

of the MC.C.. but the the gates, Derbyshire are going to members have a nasty financial problem. players the professionals from the

June Lang looks annoyed because Oliver Hardy in culting in on her dancing partner, James Ellison, during the Ball. A scene from Ital Roach's "Zenobia," showing at the King's Theatre to-morrow.

Nazi Britain's

"Shots" At Children

A sixpenny "pocket cinema" toy, which is being unwittingly sold over the counters of F. W. Wool- worth's stores to British children, is to be withdrawn, at once, because it contains Axis propaganda filims.

IG orders for more of the toys have been immediately cancelled. And the "pocket cinemas" the company There is something the counties has on hand will be restocked with pictures including did not improve. They have got will have to do to help themselves.

They will have to be as ruthless in King George and Queen Elizabeth instead of Hitler and

05 any Arst-class Mussolini.

Earlier in the season the secretary, counties.. Mr. Taylor, said that the club would

be in serious Anaural straits if gutes

Worse.

TEAM BUILDING'

team-building

EVEN LANCASHIRE Lancashire have suffered more | Soccer viub. from the weather than any county, II an amateur cannot be and, if they are one of the big "six" goort enough to as regards

found

lend the side and

BIG

The toy, made in Nazi-controll- But the manager of a Woolworth's finance, they, too, will pull his weight, then a professional ed Czechoslovakin, has twenty-store discovered the truth. have to do a lot of cheese-paring it should be given the job of raptain.five films, which make enlarged

OPENING SEPT. 1st

AT THE

KING'S THEATRE

I CONFESS

As part of my job as a Nazi Spy. I obtained

the secret plans of America's coad

defenses Confido ial cod

Confessions of a

AZI SPY

puntries so that

The United States

I worked

hand in hand with high Nazı officials

an "the other side".

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pictures when the "cinema" is held up to the light.

They were supposed to be “spert, topical and scenic" films.

Chopping and changing captains during the season must be bad for any team.

Lancashire may have a captaincy problem at the end of this season, and it seems certain that whatever the committee do they will insist on the new captain-providing Lionel Lister resigns, which he is expected to do being able to play throughout the summer.

NOT, GOOD

Dual captaincy is not good. Coun- tles who have tried it have found that gut. And hwo many caplains are there to-day who could be said to be worth their place in the team for their pinying ability?

Sound Judges put the number as Jow half a dozen, which is a seri-

113 ous reflection on the amateur playing strength in first-class cricket.

Recent Test teams bear out this assertion. In the two Tests played, Wally Hammond, a former profes-

anal, hus stonal,

captained an otherwise nil-professional team.

NAZI SALUTE

He found that the young folk of Britain were getting pictures of:-

Hitler, addressing a gathering of Nuris, massed together, and giving the Nazi salute;

Close-up of Goebbels, Reich Minister Propaganda, the man behind the Nazi Press and radio attacks on Britain;

Axis flags—Nazi, Kallan and Japanese Intertwined;

ane of fits Mussolini. during notorions

meetings with Hitler; German motor roads and other scenes from the Axis countries. The padding for this was some British sports shots,

THE STORES MANAGER IM- MEDIATELY REALISED THE POSSIBLE DANGER TO CHIL- DISH MINDS OF SUCH PIC- TURES.

It is one of the ways the minds of German and liallan children have been

een moulded.

Bo the manager quickly tele- phoned his London office, and within a few hours ali further orders for the toy had been-can- celled.

The first delivery was part of a big consignment bought by the firm.

- ORDERS cancelled

A Woolworth's offelal in London

the Daily Mirror:--

And the chances are that when the M.C.C. come to choose the team that p must tour Australia the winter after next, they will find it extremely dif- told flcult on merit to include any ame- teurs, except the captain and possi- bly one other.

UNIQUE PHOTOGRAPH Scoring in the Kent and Hamp- shire match at Canterbury during the August holiday was Alec Hearne. On the pavilion wall was a group including him which G. J. C. Welgall described as "the most wonderful world." erleket photograph in the His point was that although Laken in 1884, on the occasion of the Kent and Australians match, all but two of the Kent team, Lord Harris and George G. Hearne, are still liv

was

Inwe were the only county side to beat the Australian that tour Hearne said. "I was about 18 then and got seven wickets, which really sent me up in the Kent side.

Hearne was one of the youngest players. F. A. Mackinnon 91, now was 36 at the time of the match.

"When we ordered these toys we thought that the pictures would. show views of various countries and sporting events,

“We did not dream that they would include pictures of Ililer and Mussolini, otherwise we should not have bought them.

"Immediately one of our mana- zers spotted the truth we cancelled further orders.

We knew that

our customers might misconstrue the toy as pro- paganda.

The present alms are being taken out of the unsold toys and scrapped. Pictures of topical subjects, with incidents from the Royal tour Canada, will replace them.

of

OUR GUIDE TO THE CINEMAS

"While New York Steeps" (King's, to-day).-Clue-and-cutie chasing re- porters meet a mystery so bewilder- ing that it has to be solved twice- as they catch a killer before the killing, print the story of a murder before it happens and then And the some man has been murdered again. With Michael Whalen, Jean

Chick Chandler and Juan Woods,

"Five Came Back“ (Quéèn's,' 10- day)-Melodrama about ་ transport plane wrecked in a South American jungle, and an assorted group of Passengers only five of whom can be flown back to civilization. Thele sur- face reactions under pressure are studied. Exciting, ingeniously done. Chester Morris, Lucille Ball. Wendy Barrie, John Carradine, Allen Jenkins and C. Aubrey Smith,

"East Side of Heaven" (Alhambra, to-day). An infant called Sandy withs the centre of attention from i cast that includes Blog Crosby in his most affable mood, Joan Blondell, Mischa Auer, Irene Hervey and C. Aubrey Smith. It's a story of ro- mance set against some family dif- ficulties and all decorated up with sungs

"Off The Record" (Majestle, ta- day). Involved combination of meio- druma and romance about a pair of reporters who marry, and the hard tile orphan whom they rescue from a reformatory and try to set on the right path. Pat O'Brien, Joan Blon- take chlet dell and Bobby Jordan parts.

The Kid from Texas" (Cathay to-day).-Romantic comedy about a cowboy who learned to play polo und

went Eaɛt to put his lessons to use. A bit of romance is mixed with polo. Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Anthony Allen, Jessie Ralph and Buddy Ebsen are featured.

Twenty Men Defy Channel Inferno

SCORCHED BY INTENSE

HEAT, A SOLITARY STEAMER WITH 25 MEN ABOARD STOOD BY IN THE ENGLISH CHAN- NEL ONE NIGHT RE- CENTLY WARNING SHIPS AWAY FROM A ́SQUARE MILE PATCHOF

BLAZING DEATH.

The ship was the Trinity House Satellite, and she was guarding the grave of the 5,000- ons French tanker Sunik, and the i men who perished with her when she sank after a col- lision 20 miles of the Cornish coast.

70 FT. SPOUTS

Oil was gushing from the sunken ship and igniting as it reached the blazing surface,

Streams of oil spouted 70ft. into the air.

To make maiters worse a thick pull of fog ny over the area.

The BB.C. broadcust a warning to ships to avoid the area. Many have been going dangerously neur owing to fog, which obscures the

biuze.

Deer Rescued In Lake

CHETEK, Wix. Citizens of Chetek hall Matt -Deweyer

a deer Ilicsover. Deweyer was cruising in his motor- boat on Lake Chetek when Oscar D. Olson called his attention to a dos Deweyer alruggling in the water. manoeuvred his boat close to the animal, seized it and hauled aboard.

Old Roundhouse Razed

STOCKBRIDGE, Moss.

The West Stockbridge roundhouse of the New Haven railroad, recently razed, was the oldest roundhouse in New England-having been erected in

The card of which the toy is at- tached bears plctures of snow scenes, sporting events and a British battle- hip. On it are the words: "Actual dlm pictures," sport, scenic, topical." 1888. -

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